The prediction of the Small Mining and Artisanal Mining Law (ASM Law) could be ready this Tuesday, so that in the session of the Energy Commission that will be held that day it can be debated and approved, and can be put to a vote in the plenary sessions on Wednesday or Thursday.
This, to take advantage of the fact that the Minister of Energy and Mines (Minem), Rómulo Mucho, who has been invited to be present at that session, can answer the doubts and questions of the members of the commission about the ASM Law, as well as the six-month extension of the Reinfo proposed by his portfolio.
The congressman from Renovación Popular, Esdras Medina, told Perú21 that he will request today the president of the Energy Commission, Paul Gutiérrez, that in tomorrow’s session the prediction of the ASM Law is ready and can be debated that day.
“If there is consensus, the opinion could be voted on and approved that same day. The protest of the informal miners, who have been on Abancay Avenue in front of Congress for a week, forces us to resolve this issue urgently,” Medina said.
In the event that this does not happen, and the head of the commission does not present the report on the MAPE Law, the commission could hold an extraordinary session on Friday the 29th. And it is likely that, if that happens, the opinion will not be available. of the owner of Minem.
CENSORSHIP
This is because the two motions of censure against him, presented by Fuerza Popular and Podemos, would be voted on in the plenary sessions on Wednesday or Thursday. And, according to the number of members of the 11 groups that have signed the motions, they would exceed the 66 votes needed to censure him.
According to Congressman Medina, “it would be useless to censure” Mucho because it would delay the problem even more, since the Executive would have to elect a new minister and he would have to absorb the new Mape Law, meanwhile, the problem would remain unresolved. .
Meanwhile, the legal advisor of the National Confederation of Small Mining and Artisanal Mining of Peru (Confemin-Perú), José Farfán, told Peru21 that their union—one of the organizers of the mobilization of informal miners—is asking that Reinfo be extended for five more years. He is not interested in this registry also being used by criminal mafias that operate in illegal mining areas.
I KNEW THAT
-Illegal miners blockade in the south. At the close of this edition, the Panamericana Sur, near Ica and Arequipa, remained blocked for the third day, and trips to the south of the country were canceled.
-Popular Renewal requests expansion of Reinfo. The bill of the celestial bench proposes, like the Government, six months of expansion of the Reinfo.
Bill to expand the Popular Renewal Reinfo.
Illegal miners in the police’s sights
For brutal attack on PNP troops in Huamachuco
A group of members of the Coigobamba patrol, in Huamachuco, would have identified the illegal miners who participated in the attack on eight police officers, which occurred in that town last Thursday. The suspects would be Jaime Coronel and Edin Villarruel, under the orders of Eusebio Valverde.
According to this newspaper’s sources, they would have intervened in the burning of the Peruvian National Police (PNP) van and would be members of a gang of illegal miners that operates in the Polo de Huamachuco forest, in the Sierra de La Libertad.
That Thursday, as recalled, eight agents from the Criminal Investigation Department (Depincri) of the Peruvian National Police (PNP) in Huamachuco were attacked by illegal miners who operate freely in the so-called Polo forest.
The property would be owned by Fernando Polo, a character who is linked to the illicit activity, and who would have delegated the coordination of the criminal activities to his son Pedro Polo.
Suspects of the attack.
