The former president of the Peruvian Society of Mining, Petroleum and Energy, Carlos Gálvez expressed his unease because in the message to the nation that President Dina Boluarte pronounced there were no commitments related to concrete government actions.
In statements for Peru21 He considered “interesting” that the head of state has initiated her speech recalling the circumstances in which she took the reins of the Executive after the failed coup d’etat of Pedro Castillo on December 7, 2022.
“It is true that Mrs. Boluarte had to assume a difficult position and if she had not adopted it, the truth is that the future of Peru’s history would have been very different,” he said.
However, the former SNMPE considered that after this reflection the presidential message had significant deficiencies.
“The rest of the speech, the truth is that there are too many words and little content. It has been a laundry list where it has come to mention until support with S/80,000 to an entrepreneurship in Puno, the truth, a level of detail that does not correspond to a presidential message,” he said.
Gálvez also highlighted the lack of commitments acquired by the president in his last message, despite the great collection that is being generated thanks to metal prices.
“I am worried that I have not mentioned any commitment, that with this price level in a super metal price cycle, where it is having an unexpected super collection, it could not be committed to eliminating the fiscal deficit,” he said.
In that line, he criticized the little space that Boluarte gave in his message to the nation to the actions that his government would take to combat illegal mining.
“If we go to the mining part for my liking, he dedicated very little space to the issue of informal, illegal mining legislation, as they want to call it. It is true that the 50,000 reinfos have been canceled but I believe that the firmness of the government should be much clearer about that and a critical path of how they will handle this with Congress should have been fixed,” he said.
In addition, he questioned that the government continues to inject funds to Petroperú and considered that the state company is managed “politically.”
“The other very worrying issue was Petroperú because they are inflating again to a company that is deficit for its four sides, it has no viable exits. I am worried that on the side of the government, it certainly Petroperú has a political management, but that has not made a decision or is making a clear course of departure,” he reflected.
“I would have suggested that it be much shorter and would have committed to some things that could really run,” concluded Carlos Gálvez.
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