Videgaray, who has also been rumored as a potential 2017 gubernatorial candidate for the PRI in the state of Mexico, a populous region next to the capital, will not take another public post, a finance ministry spokeswoman said.
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Pena Nieto on Wednesday named Jose Antonio Meade to be his new Finance Minister, after Luis Videgaray – who is said to have been behind the invitations to Trump and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton – handed in his resignation, Xinhua news agency reported.
“Whoever wins (the U.S. election), the relationship, at least with Pena Nieto until there’s a new (Mexican) president, will already be cooler than it should have been before Trump’s visit”, Crespo said.
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“Look at the aftermath today, where the people that arranged the trip in Mexico have been forced out of government”.
The resignation comes a week after the meeting between Mexico’s president Mr. Pena Nieto and Donald Trump, which engendered widespread dismay and anger among Mexicans and reportedly divided Nieto’s cabinet.
Trump commented on the resignation during a forum with USA veterans on NBC television when he was asked if the United States could take a chance with him as commander-in-chief.
Finance Secretary Luis Videgaray, one of Pena Nieto’s closest advisers and confidants, resigned Wednesday in a move seen as linked to Trump’s visit. The Mexican outlet notes Videgaray’s previous influence in that country as making him a likely candidate for the 2018 presidential elections.
Pena Nieto said Meade will be in charge of turning in a primary budget surplus for next year, meaning government spending will have to be less than revenues, not including interest payments on debt.
Meanwhile, Mexico was criticized for appearing to meddle in the US election process, and Pena Nieto was forced to repeatedly defend the decision to invite the candidates.
Pena Nieto gave Trump a platform to look presidential just as Clinton was seeking to paint him as unfit for office.
Trump had called Mexican migrants “criminals” and “defilers”.
Speaking at a town hall last Thursday where he fielded questions from young people, Pena Nieto sought to defend the decision to invite Trump to visit.
The president later insisted he had told Trump that Mexico would not pay. Trump mentioned his recent visit to Mexico as an example of his success in dealing with other nations.
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A day later, Trump tweeted that Mexico would pay for the wall, Pena Nieto fired back his own tweet saying that would “never” happen. She called Trump’s quick stop in Mexico City “an embarrassing worldwide incident”.
