pledged strict management of public sector debt on Thursday and said the government’s financing needs would be lower this year than last, when the .

Leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has sought to run an while throwing lifelines to state oil company Pemex , which helped bring down its financial debt to USD $99.6 billion last year.

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Even so, two credit rating agencies flipped their to negative in 2019 and .

Pemex is still teetering on the brink of a downgrade to junk status .

The said in a statement that public sector finance needs were estimated at 11.8% of gross domestic product in 2020, down 0.7 percentage points from a year earlier. Government financing needs will be 7.5% of GDP .

In 2020, it added, Mexico’s debt management strategy will aim to improve the maturity profile as well as cost and risk characteristics. It will center on local debt issuance and favor fixed-rate and long-maturity instrument, the statement said.

The Finance Ministry also said debt management would be “strict and transparent” with an overall goal of guaranteeing sustainable public debt levels over the long term.

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Such a conservative approach could indicate López Obrador is unlikely to open the purse strings on public spending to boost , which .

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