At last. The president of Congress, Eduardo Salhuana, said in RPP that next Monday the 18th the Executive will send to the commission of its sector, in the Legislative, the draft of the Small Mining and Artisanal Mining Law (ASM Law).
Salhuana pointed out that the Minister of Energy, Rómulo Mucho, assured him that the bill was already ready to be sent to the Legislature on that date.
As recalled, Mucho publicly committed to submitting, last Thursday, the Mape Law project, which will put an end to a new expansion of the Reinfo. However, he didn’t do it.
Last week, the Minister of Energy and Mines, Rómulo Mucho, said that the Executive Branch was going to deliver the draft of the ASM Law.
“At the end of the council of vice ministers, the day after tomorrow (Wednesday, November 6), we have the Council of Ministers and first thing on Thursday it will be entering the Legislative Palace,” he noted that time in RPP.
However, last Wednesday, at a press conference, after finishing the Council of Ministers, Premier Gustavo Adrianzén said that they were still finishing the aforementioned bill: “I do not doubt that the bill, which the Executive is finishing drafting , is ready, and that in it solutions can be found for, for example, the conservation of the environment, the simplification of administrative procedures. I trust that, in the coming days, we will be in a position to be able to offer a bill that contributes. to this.”
ATTEMPT TO EXTEND REINFO IS STOPPED
On the other side, in Congress, last Wednesday, Peru21 reported that in a desperate attempt for mining illegality to get its way again, Paul Gutiérrez, the very president of the Energy and Mines Commission, representative of the Magisterial Bloc, put on the table a substitute text that proposed expanding exceptional for two years the mining formalization process to be immediately debated in its working group.
But his desperate attempt to benefit, once again, those who until today enjoy impunity and free action to operate outside the law, was not successful at the end of his commission session.
A previous question presented by legislator Diana Gonzales for the dangerous prediction of the former Peru Libre to return to the technical secretariat was supported by 14 of the 17 members of this working group.
Gutiérrez, in addition to Raúl Doroteo, from Acción Popular, and Pasión Dávila, from the Socialist Bank, voted against this request.
A crushing defeat for these defenders of mining illegality and a seizure of good sense and responsibility from this commission. The Avanza País parliamentarian described the replacement text presented hours before the session by her committee president as a desperate act.
“We cannot allow an indefinite extension as established in this ruling,” explained Diana Gonzales. He also proposed that we wait for the Executive to present the draft Law on Small Mining and Artisanal Mining (ASM). Hours before this debate, the Minister of Energy and Mines, Rómulo Mucho, announced in the Budget Committee that the long-awaited proposal will be seen today in the session of the Council of Ministers and will be delivered to Congress first thing tomorrow morning, Thursday. A wait that took almost two years.
Furthermore, we must not forget that Peru21 has announced that Gutiérrez, who has been from Fenatep, stood up for Movadef, stating that he does not agree with the ruling that declares that organization a terrorist group.
In the interview, he stated that he had no connection with Movadef, despite the fact that his name appears in a Dircote report from 2017, when Carlos Basombrío was Minister of the Interior.
On the other hand, Mucho would appear on Tuesday the 19th at the Energy Commission to explain the appointment of Alejandro Narváez to the position of president of Petroperú, despite being a member of Together for Peru (JPP), whose bench promotes the presidential vacancy .
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