Congress will challenge the Minister of Energy and Mines in a plenary session on January 31

The Congress convened for January 31 the plenary session in which the interpellation against the Minister of Energy and Mines, Eduardo González Toro, for the appointment of Daniel Salaverry as president of the Perupetro board of directors.

The Senior Official of Congress sent the formal summons to all parliamentarians to attend the plenary session that will be on Tuesday at 10:30 am in person in the hemicycle or, virtually, through the session platform that has been enabled during the state of emergency.

The interpellatory statement against the head of the Ministry of Energy and Mines includes ten questions, all related to the decision made by his sector to appoint Daniel Salaverry as head of Perupetro’s board of directors.

In the agenda of the plenary session, which will also take place on Tuesday, February 1 and Wednesday, February 2, in what will be the last week of the first ordinary legislature of the Legislative Power, the account of the interpellation motion against the Minister of the Interior, Avelino Guillén.

It should be noted that Daniel Salaverry, whose appointment was questioned and motivated the interpellation that will take place on Monday the 31st, irrevocably resigned on January 25 from the position of chairman of the Perupetro board of directors.

“In order to prevent this situation from continuing to be used as a tool for political destabilization to attack your government, by sectors that have not been able to overcome the electoral defeat that I faced when I was president of the Congress of the Republic, it is that I present my irrevocable resignation to the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of Perupetro SA”, reads the letter that was released this Wednesday on social networks.

This was published after it became known that the General Management of Perupetro reported that Salaverry had indeed entered the headquarters of the state company to carry out acts corresponding to his function, thus contradicting what Eduardo González Toro had explained the previous week before the Commission of Energy and Mines of the Congress.