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Almost two years have passed since President Andrés Manuel López Obrador stated that the job of companies is to invest, generate jobs and pay taxes", because helping citizens "is an obligation of the government" , but it seems that his opinion has changed with the arrival of Covid-19, as it now considers the private sector as a fundamental entity for the development of the country.
The President has assured on occasions that companies did not pay taxes or fulfill their social responsibility in Mexico and, on more than one occasion, he has stated that “a company that evades paying taxes, that does not contribute to the development of the country, does not "It has ethics and a corporation that does not pay its workers well, that exploits them, because it is not a company with a civic and ethical dimension either."
However this seems to have changed. During the morning conference on May 24, the current federal president pointed out that “in the economy the Mexican State cannot be the only promoter of development, nor can it nor should it be the only one, the participation of the private sector and the social".
It is worth mentioning that in 2019, in the same mining room of the National Palace, he commented that the federal government, despite having austere budgets, would comply Chile Mobile Number List with the commitments of the 2030 Agenda and the sustainable development of the country.
“The purpose is that we all save, that there are no excesses, that there are no superfluous expenses, that there are no luxuries in the government, that there is no waste and that extravagances end,” he explained.
Now, the federal president rectifies and says that the economy that he conceives today is the one that manages to harmonize different sectors to achieve the development of Mexico, since "public investment, private investment and social investment are the three engines that are required to achieve the development of the country with the stewardship of the State.”
“That is a fundamental difference that we have with the conservatives, because they would like the State not to promote development and to exercise direction for the development of the country, they would like the State to be diluted and for everything to be left to the market, to freedom business," he said.
However, he added that the participation of the State is necessary so that there are no abuses and so that there is no “misunderstood freedom”, “like the freedom of the fox in the henhouse, one cannot say 'the fox is free in the henhouse'. ', because it kills all the chickens."
“So, the State is required to fulfill its social responsibility, but this does not mean that it suffocates the initiative of civil society, that is, the private sector; Besides, it couldn't be done, we don't have enough budget,” he added.
He pointed out that currently the federal government has an investment capacity of 20% of what the country requires, and that is why 80% has to be achieved with the participation of the national and foreign private sector, and that there is also "We have to take it into account."
The IP in the 4T
Although in 2020, the President of the Republic showed great interest in the support of the private sector during the economic and health crisis that Mexico is experiencing due to the arrival of Covid-19, according to a study carried out by the Center for Economic Studies of the Private Sector (CEESP) , the federal government adds 15 “actions of animosity” to private investment.
According to the figures, physical investment has reduced almost 6% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from 2008 to the third quarter of 2020, that is, it fell from 22.8% to 17.1% and it is the current government led by López Obrador where the largest continuous drop has been recorded: “3.2% of the 6% that fell from 2018 to 2020 corresponds to the period from January 2019 to September 2020.”
“The fall in investment has sharply worsened under this government. Public investment has clear political objectives and is mainly directed at projects whose social profitability is dubious and opaque, while private investment has been significantly discouraged,” the study states.
In this sense, the CEESP maintained that private investment is the engine that can cause the recovery of economic activity in Mexico, but it has been "severely weakened in these last two years."
The President has assured on occasions that companies did not pay taxes or fulfill their social responsibility in Mexico and, on more than one occasion, he has stated that “a company that evades paying taxes, that does not contribute to the development of the country, does not "It has ethics and a corporation that does not pay its workers well, that exploits them, because it is not a company with a civic and ethical dimension either."
However this seems to have changed. During the morning conference on May 24, the current federal president pointed out that “in the economy the Mexican State cannot be the only promoter of development, nor can it nor should it be the only one, the participation of the private sector and the social".
It is worth mentioning that in 2019, in the same mining room of the National Palace, he commented that the federal government, despite having austere budgets, would comply Chile Mobile Number List with the commitments of the 2030 Agenda and the sustainable development of the country.
“The purpose is that we all save, that there are no excesses, that there are no superfluous expenses, that there are no luxuries in the government, that there is no waste and that extravagances end,” he explained.
Now, the federal president rectifies and says that the economy that he conceives today is the one that manages to harmonize different sectors to achieve the development of Mexico, since "public investment, private investment and social investment are the three engines that are required to achieve the development of the country with the stewardship of the State.”
“That is a fundamental difference that we have with the conservatives, because they would like the State not to promote development and to exercise direction for the development of the country, they would like the State to be diluted and for everything to be left to the market, to freedom business," he said.
However, he added that the participation of the State is necessary so that there are no abuses and so that there is no “misunderstood freedom”, “like the freedom of the fox in the henhouse, one cannot say 'the fox is free in the henhouse'. ', because it kills all the chickens."
“So, the State is required to fulfill its social responsibility, but this does not mean that it suffocates the initiative of civil society, that is, the private sector; Besides, it couldn't be done, we don't have enough budget,” he added.
He pointed out that currently the federal government has an investment capacity of 20% of what the country requires, and that is why 80% has to be achieved with the participation of the national and foreign private sector, and that there is also "We have to take it into account."
The IP in the 4T
Although in 2020, the President of the Republic showed great interest in the support of the private sector during the economic and health crisis that Mexico is experiencing due to the arrival of Covid-19, according to a study carried out by the Center for Economic Studies of the Private Sector (CEESP) , the federal government adds 15 “actions of animosity” to private investment.
According to the figures, physical investment has reduced almost 6% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from 2008 to the third quarter of 2020, that is, it fell from 22.8% to 17.1% and it is the current government led by López Obrador where the largest continuous drop has been recorded: “3.2% of the 6% that fell from 2018 to 2020 corresponds to the period from January 2019 to September 2020.”
“The fall in investment has sharply worsened under this government. Public investment has clear political objectives and is mainly directed at projects whose social profitability is dubious and opaque, while private investment has been significantly discouraged,” the study states.
In this sense, the CEESP maintained that private investment is the engine that can cause the recovery of economic activity in Mexico, but it has been "severely weakened in these last two years."