Concerns

Alberto Aziz Nassif suggests that the new format for the informe, which replaces the recitation before Congress of every conceivable statistical measure of Mexico's progress with a series of brief messages on a variety of topics and and a written version of the informe previously given orally, is merely "a comfortable solution before the incapacity of finding any republican mechanism so that the executive and legislative branches could establish a direct interlocution." He also worries that the president is obligated to appear before Congress only twice over the course of the six-year term: when he (or she) is sworn into office, and when he (or she) turns power over to his (or her) successor.

I think he's overreacting. The informe was theatre, and boring theatre at that. It did nothing to foster communication between Congress and the president. If they were determined to get along poorly (see the sexenio of Fox, Vicente) putting them together in the same room once a year for an interminable speech didn't change anything. If both branches are serious about working productively (see Calderón, Felipe), a watered-down informe won't impede them.