Mining and another new blow. The Energy and Mines Commission turned a deaf ear to the criticisms and recommendations of sector specialists and approved this afternoon by a large majority to extend the Comprehensive Registry of Mining Formalization (Reinfo) until December 2027 and the reincorporation into that database of the 50 thousand illegal miners excluded by supreme decree No. 012-2025.
The bill was approved by 17 members of this working group. Only three congressmen—Diana Gonzales (Avanza País), Carlos Alva (Popular Action) and Ruth Luque (Popular Democratic Bloc)—were against and Wilson Soto abstained.
This time representatives of the right and left benches voted along the same lines to give more green light to informality. Thus, Víctor Cutipa and Roberto Sánchez (Together for Peru), Luis Alegría, Patricia Juárez and Cesar Revila (Fuerza Popular), Eduardo Salhuana, Segundo Quiroz and Rosio Torres (APP), Jorge Montoya (Honor and Democracy), Héctor Valer, Elizabeth Medina and Paul Gutiérrez (Somos Perú), José Arriola, Guido Bellido (Vamos), Miguel Ciccia and Esdras Medina (Renovación Popular), Pasión Dávila (Bancada Socialista) and Kelly Portalatino (Perú LIbre), ruled the vote in favor.
As is known, important business associations in the country issued a harsh warning and previously rejected this ruling that proposed extending the Reinfo for two years, considering it as a measure that would open a new door to impunity and consolidate the advance of illegal mining, today considered the most powerful illicit economy in Peru.
Organizations such as ComexPerú, Confiep, SNI, Adex, the National Society of Mining, Petroleum and Energy, the National Fisheries Society and chambers of commerce from different regions, maintain that a new extension contravenes the international commitments assumed by the country in the Andean Policy to Fight Illegal Mining.
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