The confrontation between the Minister of Transport and Communications, César Sandoval, and The mayor of Lima, Rafael López Aliagaaround the project of Lima -Chosic Train, Add a new chapter. During the work table installed to discuss the initiative, the head of the MTC He launched direct criticisms of the burgomaster, who was responsible for wanting to politicize the issue by transferring the discussion to Congress of the Republic.
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“There is no political position or proposal, but if you take it to Parliament, where there are benches that belong to political parties and that are in the electoral career after the Presidency of the Republic, after the Senate. Then I ask them: Who is politicizing the issue?” Sandoval said in front of the representatives of the table.
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The minister insisted that his sector has approached the project from a technical and non -political approach. “Here we are, that we have done and at no time has we wanted to look from a political angle, but from a technical angle,” he added, referring to the repeated discrepancies with the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima on the viability and deadlines of the train.
Sandoval also warned that those who take the issue to Parliament They do “for two things: because they do not want to conclude the issue for some political revenue or because they have already politicized the issue.” In that sense, he stressed that he has not requested the intervention of political actors in the debate.
It should be remembered that the minister and the mayor have held various discrepancies in recent weeks regarding Lima -Chosic Train. While municipal management seeks to accelerate the project with supposedly “donated” rail material from United States, MTC It opposes because they do not yet have the approved technical study and several deficiencies have already been shown.
López Aliaga looks for Congress to press by Train Lima -Chosica
The mayor of Lima, Rafael López Aliaga, asked the president of Congress, José Jerí, that medie with the executive to unlock the start -up of the train Lima -chosica. Despite questions about the project that does not have complete technical files or viability studies that guarantee their safety.
Among its demands, the burgomaster requested an emergency decree, the approval of an addendum to the concession contract for Ferrovías Central Andino and a usufruct agreement for the rolling material donated from USA.
In addition, he claimed that the Lima commune be authorized to implement security measures in rail crossings. These proposals, however, transfer the responsibility of an unfinished project to the Congress, that has no technical competence to replace the shortcomings of the Executive and the Municipality.
Congressman Diego Bazán denies that Lima -Chosic train cars are “scrap”
Congressman Diego Bazán came out to excuse To the mayor Rafael López Aliaga In the middle of the questions to the train Lima -chosicaand assured that the wagons and locomotives donated from USA They would be “in operation.”
“In a report that we have shared to the press, discarding that what has been received is scrap. It is a report made by the Municipality of Lima months ago, before the arrival of trains and wagons to the port of Callao (…) we flatly denied that the received is scrap, on the contrary, everything is in operation,” he said from lost steps.
