Fuerza Popular congressman César Revilla assured Perú21 that there is a danger that, in today’s session, the president of the Energy and Mines Commission, Paul Gutiérrez, “could accelerate the debate” of the prediction of five bills that They propose to indefinitely extend the Comprehensive Mining Formalization Registry (Reinfo), whose deadline expires on December 31, 2024.
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This, until the new Small Mining and Artisanal Mining Law (Mape) comes into effect. But it turns out that the project for this new law has not even been presented by the Executive, so they would extend indefinitely the illegal mining that does so much damage to the country.
Given this risk, Revilla assured that he will propose to Gutiérrez that the aforementioned bill not be voted on until the Executive sends the Mape Law project.
The prediction that already exists in this commission accumulates the bills of the Magisterial Block bench, of Paul Gutiérrez and Segundo Quiroz, and two others of the Podemos bench, promoted by José Luna Gálvez. At the last minute, a fifth initiative also entered, from Darwin Espinoza, also from Podemos.
For his part, the president of Congress, Eduardo Salhuana, told Perú21 that he is against a possible expansion of the Reinfo and urged the Executive to send the Mape Law project.
The Secretary of Transparency, Omar Awapara, told Perú21TV that illegal mining has become an economy “superior to that of drug trafficking,” due to the amount of money that is moved, and recalled that “it is linked to crimes such as contract killings, human trafficking and extortion.”
