Mexican leftist groups in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies on Monday rejected a government-sponsored television commercial disqualifying their protests against President Felipe Calderon's energy reform bill.
The leftist parties of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), Labor (PT) and Convergence, rejected the television commercial that compares former presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's social actions to those carried out by rightwing dictators in history.
Leftists legislators' said their "civil resistance to defend (Mexico's sovereign) oil is being disqualified by the dirty media propaganda campaign."
Lopez Obrador opposes President Felipe Calderon's energy reform bill because he believes it aims to privatize the Mexican state-run oil company Pemex.
The legislators of the Progressive Ample Front (FAP), made up of the PRD, PT and Convergence, defend Mexico's oil sovereignty and propose "an in-depth, ample, plural and inclusive debate to analyze all the issues" with respect to Mexico's oil sovereignty and Calderon's energy reform.
Lopez Obrador had invited the general public to attend the Coordinating Commission to Defend Mexico's Oil's next assembly, which will be held on April 27 in Mexico City's main square, the nation's largest.
Source:Xinhua
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