“The schedule that was previously will remain, I don’t want to say what they called that schedule, how they continue to call it, we have to take care of the lay state, no, I’m not going to say it, God’s schedule,” he said.
López Obrador said that although he has the power to eliminate the time change by decree, he will conduct a survey among citizens.
When he was head of government of the then Federal District, the current president of Mexico made a telephone consultation regarding the time change. 321,933 people participated in the exercise, of which 75% spoke once morest the measure and 25% in favor.
According to the president, the harm to health outweighs the benefits in energy saving, so there is a chance that the time change will be abolished.
“Last year the total savings were 1,000 million pesos throughout the country, 1,000 million pesos… Not for 1,000 million pesos are we going to allow damage to health,” he said.