It was the chronicle of an announced extension that favors informal and illegal mining. The proposal to extend the Comprehensive Mining Formalization Registry (Reinfo) for up to one year, as announced by the head of Congress, Eduardo Salhuana, yesterday morning, was fulfilled, and was ratified, in the Plenary, by the evening.
LOOK: Plenary session of Congress approved extending the Reinfo for up to one year
The result of the vote was 87 votes in favor, 20 against and 12 abstentions.
And, also by majority, there was a green light for the exoneration of the second vote.
Voting of congressmen in the plenary session on the expansion of Reinfo.
Exemption from the second vote on the expansion of the Reinfo.
This was the vote on the expansion of Reinfo in the Plenary.
This means that starting today the Executive has 15 days, according to the Constitution, to enact the aforementioned law, and have it published in the newspaper El Peruano.
If it is observed, the Legislature can approve the law upon insistence.
What the Energy Commission did not do in two weeks, in the face of threats from informal and illegal miners, the Plenary Session did in one day: approve the extension of up to one year of the Reinfo, in which there are illegal miners camouflaged.
THE GREEN LIGHT WAS SONG
Although the debate on the opinion in plenary was scheduled to begin yesterday at 3:00 pm, it was delayed due to a previous issue presented by the secretary of the Budget Commission, César Revilla. At 4:30 pm the plenary session restarted, but the debate on the opinion did not begin until 7:00 pm.
Last Thursday, at the Meeting of Spokespersons, because there was no white smoke in the Energy and Mines Commission, the president of Congress had to convene a Meeting of Spokespersons in which it was decided, by consensus, to give the green light to the six-month extension of the Comprehensive Mining Formalization Registry (Reinfo), and an additional six-month extension, if necessary, via supreme decree of the Executive, that is, up to one year of impunity.
Yesterday morning, Salhuana himself confirmed, in a press conference, what was agreed upon in that meeting. Although he did not make known at that time the content of the agreement – that is, the extension of Reinfo for up to one year – he made it very clear that the aforementioned legislative commission was going to approve the opinion, and that it would then be voted on in the Plenary. (see video below).
Starting at 10:00 am, when the work table began in which the advisors of the congressmen who were members of the Energy Commission participated, Perú21 was able to learn the content of the opinion.
Working table of the Energy Commission (Video: Juan Carlos Chamorro)
This is because in the debate there were some advisors who insisted on extending the registration by one year, despite the fact that there was already a prior political agreement.
However, the meeting ended up ratifying the new text, which was then going to be endorsed in the commission.
At 12:25 noon the Commission session began.
In the debate, before voting on the new text, two previous questions were voted on. One proposed by the congressman of the Socialist Caucus, Pasión Dávila, for the Reinfo to be extended by one year, but was rejected. And, the other, from the spokesperson for Fuerza Popular, Arturo Alegría, so that a lock be incorporated into the opinion so that explosives cannot be acquired or sold without control from the Ministry of Energy and Mines. This problem traceability proposal was approved.
The result of the vote on the opinion was 15 votes in favor, one against and four abstentions.
Result of the vote in the Energy and Mines Commission. Interview with the head of the commission, Paul Gutiérrez, and the spokesperson for Fuerza Popular, Arturo Alegría (Video: Juan Carlos Chamorro).
This was the debate of the new opinion in the Energy Commission (Videos: Juan C. Chamorro)
THEY GAVE IN TO THE THREATS OF THE INFORMALS
In the morning, the informal miners, led by the president of the National Confederation of Small Mining and Artisanal Mining of Peru (Confemin Peru), threatened Congress, through a video, to approve the expansion of said registry.
Máximo Franco Bequer, a member of Renovación Popular, warned that if the Legislature and the Executive Branch did not extend the Reinfo, his union was not responsible for what could happen (see video message above).
“We ask that this enlargement problem be resolved today (yesterday). Otherwise, as of this date, the entire national leadership of Confemin Peru is no longer responsible for anything that may happen,” the leader warned on TikTok.
And, in the end, Parliament gave in to the extortion that favors informal and illegal miners.
I KNEW THAT
-For twelve days, the informal miners took over Abancay Avenue, and surrounded and threatened Congress.
-The opinion of the MAPE Law would not be ready until 2025.
-“I take away the satisfaction of having contributed to laying the foundations that Peru continues to be a country of great opportunities,” said the former Minister of Energy and Mines, Rómulo Mucho.
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