• SUPPORT: The López Obrador Administration is getting behind a legislative proposal presented in Mexico’s Congress to get rid of Daylight Saving Time by which since 1996 most of the country makes twice-yearly clock changes; the proposal argues there are health concerns directly tied to it.
• BENEFITS: Except for the Northern state of Sonora, the Caribbean coast state of Quintana Roo and 33 US border municipalities, Daylight Saving Time is applied all through Mexico with the previous Administration arguing that only in 2017, it brought USD 67.6 million in energy efficiencies.
• POPULISM: “In 1996, President Ernest Zedillo brought us in line with the US following the signing of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)…Time has come to get rid of this disastrous Daylight Saving Time”, said Senator Félix Salgado Macedonio when he proposed the idea back in March.
• POLITICAL FIGHT: With his Ministry of Energy backing the idea to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador may finally win a battle he has been fighting since he was Mayor of Mexico City in 2001 when he pushed a legal argument that even reached the Supreme Court.
