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Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Create the Strategic Economic Zone of the North along the U.S. border states with tax incentives and infrastructure investments to foster economic growth.
Promote technological and industrial development in Mexico by furthering Northamerican regional content in exports, diversifying Mexican manufacturing exports to include industries like renewable energies and robotics and helping SMEs to compete in industries where Mexico imports more than 20% of the demand.
Pave roads in small rural towns of Oaxaca to increase connectivity and their development.
Ensure availability of drinking water throughout the country by building desalination plants in the north while building aqueducts in the central and south focusing on the areas where there is more scarcity.
Modernize and expand the highway network with the intention of connecting marginalized areas of the country.
Stop the construction of the New Mexico City Airport that will substitute the old and the military one in Santa Lucía and instead expand the capacity of the Santa Lucía military airport to have 2 airports instead of one for a smaller cost.
Reach hydraulic self-sufficiency through investments that promote efficient water use for urban, industrial and agricultural needs.
Invest 45 billion pesos in the areas affected by the earthquakes in order to rebuild them and help its inhabitants.
Build a medium-speed train that connects the Mayan peninsula to boost tourism between the cities in Yucatán and Quintana Roo.
Modernize the Tehuantepec Isthmus corridor with new highway, railway and port infrastructure to boost economic development and attract investments via trade.
Create the largest online job-seeking platform to better connect unemployed with vacancies in firms.
Create a certificate of fair jobs to distinguish firms that offer fair wages to workers so that consumers can reward firms that respect labor rights.
Strengthen the existent program of "Returnees Working" by combining efforts with education institutions and firms to give sufficient opportunity to migrant Mexicans coming back home.
Facilitate collective negotiation between firms and employees with the help from the government.
Develop around 25 to 30 big scale investment projects through the creation of a public-private fund.
Recuperate job inspection duties that have been neglected by previous administrations.
Improve the Mexican economy's financing through institutional reengineering introducing regulatory changes, liberalization and descentralization of the development banks and promoting the entrance of new players to the financial markets.
No new taxes during 2019 - 2024 and keeping the budget in equilibrium to guarantee macroeconomic stability.
Restructure public spending to prioritize investments and social spending with zero corruption.
Promote competition in the banking sector by facilitating the entrance to new players and benefit from information technologies to increase the access of these services to the people.
Create a strategic program for housing financing without depending on government resources through securitization instruments and mortgage markets.
Boost the scope of development banking by funding new industries like 3D manufacturing, robotics, nanotechnology and further entrepreneurship through increased resources for R&D and linking firms with universities.
Diversify Mexico's tourism matrix by focusing on regional areas with potential to grow and the creation of low-budget tourism packages for lower income people.
Develop a new rural funding system that creates different instruments according to each region and activity's needs.
Strengthen and protect Mexican cinema by guaranteeing that its movies are obligatory shown more time (2 weeks) in better time slots and have to be 30% of the entire movies shown at once in the theatres.
Ricardo Anaya Cortés
Increase the participation of women in Mexico's economy by ensuring wage equality, sanctions for pregnancy test requirements and layoffs, children daily care programs for working mothers.
Put into practice actions that allow the substantial increase in foreign currency into the country by means of the tourism sector.
Boost strategies that stimulate the growth of national production in order for Mexico to be more competitive at the international level.
Foster the creation of businesses that provide intermediate and capital goods.
Promote the development of SMES businesses and industries to ensure the creation of good jobs that are linked to the exporting manufacturing industry as well as the transfer of technological and organizational capacities.
Recreate the development banking and financial system in order to grant sufficient funds to industrial and agriculture projects that will develop the primary sectors of Mexico's economy.
Develop a National Infrastructure Plan that promotes the participation of the public and private sector to increase a sustainable public-private investment in the country's infrastructure.
Create an Innovation National System that enables the transformation of society's knowledge into useful and profitable goods and services.
Create an Economic and Social Board that incorporates the participation of the business, labor, academic, and social organization sectors to plan and execute a democratization plan.
Reconsider the way the government spends the budget by managing resources in a responsible, efficient and transparent manner that avoids duplicating programs, monitors that spending is redistributive of wealth, reduces non-investment spending and improves the way it is distributed among the different government levels to prevent corruption.
Establish an effective, efficient, and progressive tax system in order to expand the number of contributors while simplifying the system.
Ensure that states and municipalities take responsibility for collecting taxes.
Increase transparency on the origin, acquisition, payment, and/or the renegotiation of the municipal, state, and federal debt.
Establish debt limits by states and sectors.
Create a housing policy that develops solutions to affordable housing, located in urban areas that allow smaller commuting times, implements actions to promote new laws that impede housing market speculation and that develops a National Housing System that will increase access to lines of credit for the purchase of those properties.
Elaborate a long-term, comprehensive infrastructure plan that strengthens the logistical operation of various modes of transportation. The plan will facilitate urban and intra-urban transportation by promoting the use of rail and maritime transportation while ensuring complete transparency in awarding government contracts for infrastructure projects.
Reform the country's pension system by increasing the amount of money destined for retirement savings accounts, reducing fees charged by financial institutions and combining each user has in its housing and pension funds.
Guarantee the labor rights of people working at the maquila factories and in domestic labor.
Promote sustainable tourism that is committed to developing local communities.
Create a new urban development model with the participation and monitoring from society that fosters the creation (and the adaptation of the existing ones) under a new criterion of sustainability, feasibility regarding city growth, security, infrastructure, public services, transportation, mobility and inhabitant quality of life.
Promote the fusion of municipalities with a very little population to guarantee political viability and sustainable economic development.
José Antonio Meade Kuribreña
Continue with macroeconomic stability and responsible public finances by reviewing fiscal policy to respond adequately to the changes introduced by the United States tax reform attempting to boost the internal economy and investment opportunities.
Consolidate Mexico as a logistical powerhouse by linking commercial activity between North America and Latin America, as well as with Europe and the Asia-Pacific region through a plan that furthers investments in energy, highway and port infrastructure while expanding our trade partners to maximize the effect of investments on national firms and job creation.
Implement a new law of better regulatory practices in every state of the country to reduce the cost and time of opening business.
Improve judicial certainty for businesses through more efficient handling of construction permits, property registers, contract fulfillment, protection for minority investors and business dispute resolutions.
Generate digital tools to help get across states the different business opportunities that exist.
Build a new business environment that increases the rate of consolidation from new firms through less red-tape and greater links between industry and academia.
Strengthen development banks to expand credit availability and generate new productive infrastructure.
Generate Science, Technology and Innovation Flagship Projects (CTI) that spring from industry-academia-government cooperation that allows for specific research and applications in areas like the Special Economic Zones, innovation campuses or the National Job Management Platform.
Create a private-public organism that fosters innovation and technology as well as a National Industrial Compensation System that incentivizes innovation.
Credit available without checks for women to encourage entrepreneurship.
Full-time nurseries, kindergartens and elementary schools that provide meals for children to allow women to work full-time jobs.
Equal pay for women
Social security for people that work domestic labor incentivized through income tax deductions.
Construction of more than 100 km of new subway lines that deepens and better connects Mexico City's public transportation network without raising prices.
Construction of a new external circuit of highways to avoid heavy trucking from having to pass through Mexico City.
Investment in the pipelines and hydraulic infrastructure of the eastern part of Mexico City to fight the lack of water supply poor people there have.
Implement Smart City policies and technology such as better urban planning and zoning, better connected public transportation networks, and the use of energy that turns waste into electricity for public lighting and government buildings consumption to improve quality of life in cities.
Teach children in school the importance of sustainable development that better uses the country's natural resources.
Transform the area that currently hosts the Mexico City airport into an area that has hospitals, schools and recreation spaces that boosts jobs and quality of life for the people that live in the eastern part of Mexico City while also building an efficient mode of transportation that connects this area to the new Mexico City airport being built in the State of Mexico.
Jaime Heliodoro Rodríguez Calderón
I will propose to reduce the VAT and the income tax. The VAT from 16% to 10% and the income tax from 35% to 25% so Mexicans have more resources and the economy can be reactivated. "More money for the people, less for the government."
My strongest proposal is to defeat the political parties, get the lazy out of government and send them home but without a pension, because they are the ones who continue to poison this country.
Simplify the tax paying process.
We will eliminate centralism. I will send an initiative so that the federal resources for the States, are in equal parts State - Federation
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Elimination of the Minimum Wage so that the worker is paid fairly, based on merit and experience
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Sow wealth with investments in a joint effort between civil society and the government.
Reduction of Ministries and cut government spending by 30%.
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