date:Jul 29, 2013
tive National Action Party, or PAN.
After coming to power, Pena Nieto forged a cross-party pactwith the PAN and the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution(PRD) in a bid to push through a wide raft of reforms aimed atboosting annual economic growth to 6 percent.
The PRD has said it would not back VAT taxes on food andmedicine.
The PRI does not have a majority in Congress, although it islikely to receive support from PAN lawmakers to win the simplemajority needed to pass tax changes. Howeve