The College of Civil Engineers of Mexico (CICM) considered that the next federal administration, which will be headed by Claudia Sheinbaum, president-elect, will have environmental protection, planning, transparency and accountability as infrastructure challenges .
Reyes Juárez del Ángel, vice president of Planning and Prospective of the organization, explained that it can be expected that the construction for the following years will be through a more environmentally friendly model due to the academic and historical training of the president-elect.
“In Mexico, this new administration led by the president-elect, committed to environmental issues, faces the challenge of overcoming these barriers, transparency and accountability will be crucial to ensure that infrastructure projects are not compromised by corruption, In addition, the training of the president-elect in environmental issues can help design projects that are not only functional and efficient, but also sustainable and resistant to interference,” he said.
He recalled that Sheinbaum made significant promises in infrastructure such as the construction of new roads, logistics nodes, the development of passenger trains, the creation of welfare development poles in other stages, to mention a few.
However, he made it clear that the relationship between electoral results and infrastructure development is not always direct, although promises can generate votes, the effective implementation of projects can be a herculean task due to political interference , that is, to the actions and decisions of political sectors that hinder or manipulate the development process, such as bureaucratic complexities, corruption and budget limitations for projects.
During the Balance of the elections conference on June 2. Perspectives for the development of infrastructure, he commented that in the face of this historic change in Mexico they hope that the CICM can have “special” participation to try to build a shield, so that the infrastructure processes are carried out in a more orderly manner to “rescue several of the issues that have been broken in the immediate past”, such as institutionality, that allow us to rescue the planning that has been subject to political interests.
Likewise, the organization will create a citizen body that will serve as a counterweight and support government decisions, and will also insist on the creation of a National Infrastructure Agency that will help reestablish the capacities “that have been lost in terms of governance and preparation of “good projects.”
Meanwhile, Roberto Duque Roquero, an academic at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and specialist in electoral law, said that there is a possibility that the next six-year term will be a “time of interesting public policies that have to do with infrastructure.”
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