In a desperate attempt for mining illegality to get its way again, Paul Gutiérrez, the very president of the Energy and Mines Commission, representative of the Magisterial Bloc, had started on Tuesday by giving a tremendous smothering blow to his claims to extend the life of the Reinfo. Gutiérrez put on the table a substitute text that proposed exceptionally extending the mining formalization process for two years to be immediately debated in his working group.
But his desperate attempt to benefit, once again, those who until today enjoy impunity and free action to operate outside the law was not successful at the end of his commission session.
A previous question presented by legislator Diana Gonzales for the dangerous prediction of the former Peru Libre to return to the technical secretariat was supported by 14 of the 17 members of this working group. Gutiérrez, in addition to Raúl Doroteo, from Acción Popular, and Pasión Dávila, from the Socialist Bank, voted against this request. A crushing defeat for these defenders of mining illegality and a seizure of good sense and responsibility from this commission. The Avanza País parliamentarian described the replacement text presented hours before the session by her committee president as a desperate act.
“We cannot allow an indefinite extension as established in this ruling,” explained Diana Gonzales. He also proposed that we wait for the Executive to present the draft Law on Small Mining and Artisanal Mining (ASM). Hours before this debate, the Minister of Energy and Mines, Rómulo Mucho, announced in the Budget Committee that the long-awaited proposal will be seen today in the session of the Council of Ministers and will be delivered to Congress first thing tomorrow morning, Thursday. A wait that took almost two years.
After the setback in his commission, Gutiérrez continued to defend his intention to extend the Reinfo and said he was concerned about the future of the miners who have not been able to formalize their employment.
The legislator announced that in view of the little time left for the miners to formalize themselves, he could call an extraordinary session of his commission this Friday to analyze the proposal presented by the Government, given that Representation Week begins this Monday the 11th. parliamentary
María del Carmen Alva, one of the 14 congresswomen who supported with her vote the previous question presented by Diana Gonzales, said that “happily the responsibility of the thinking people won.”
“It is evident that the president of the Commission and his team had a previous meeting with the miners to ask them to extend the formalization period. The sensible thing was to wait for the MAPE Law that the Government will deliver. I don’t know what the trouble is? Things have to be done well, especially on a delicate issue,” said the congresswoman.
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