Congressmen of Popular Force and their allied benches were the ones who voted in favor of the Reinfo expansion until December 31, 2027. The vote reached 17 votes in favor, three against and one abstention. The decision was made during a session of the Energy and Mines Commission, chaired by Congressman Víctor Cutipa Ccama (JJP-VP-BM bench).
The parliamentarians who voted in favor were: Víctor Cutipa, José Arriola, Guido Bellido, Pasión Dávila, Paul Gutiérrez, Patricia Juárez, Arturo Alegría, Elizabeth Medina, Esdras Medina, Segundo Quiroz, César Revilla, Eduardo Salhuana, Roberto Sánchez, Rosío Torres, Héctor Valer and Miguel Ángel Ciccia.
Opposed were Diana Gonzáles of Avanza País, Carlos Alva of Acción Popular and Ruth Luque of the Popular Democratic Bloc. While abstention came from Wilson Soto of Acción Popular.
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The 17 congressmen who voted in favor of the expansion of Reinfo
| Congressmen | Bench |
| 1. Victor Cutipa | Together for Peru, Voices of the People, Magisterial Bloc |
| 2. Roberto Sánchez Palomino | Together for Peru, Voices of the People, Magisterial Bloc |
| 3. José Arriola Tueros | We can Peru |
| 4. Guido Bellido | We can Peru |
| 5. Michelangelo Ciccia | Popular Renewal |
| 6. Jorge Montoya | Honor and Democracy |
| 7. Esdras Medina Minaya | Popular Renewal |
| 8. César Revilla Villanueva | Popular Force |
| 9. Arturo Alegría | Popular Force |
| 10. Patricia Juárez Gallegos | Popular Force |
| 11. Paul Gutiérrez Ticona | We are Peru |
| 12. Hector Valer Pinto | We are Peru |
| 13. Elizabeth Medina Hermosilla | We are Peru |
| 14. Eduardo Salhuana | Alliance for Progress |
| 15. Rosío Torres Salinas | Alliance for Progress |
| 16. Second Quiroz Barboza | Alliance for Progress |
| 17. Pasión Dávila | Socialist Caucus |
Debate
Congresswoman Diana González (Avanza País) raised a preliminary question so that the two temporary complementary provisions linked to the possible return of the 50 thousand excluded Reinfos and the continuity of their administrative procedures could be voted on separately. In justifying his request, he presented tax data and stressed that “it is not true that the majority of those fifty thousand excluded were working and paying taxes,” stating that the collection even increased after the registry was purged.
Likewise, he warned about the sale of Reinfos on social networks and criticized the attempt to reinstate incumbents who, as he noted, “are no longer informal miners, but illegal ones.” Finally, his previous question was rejected with 8 votes in favor, 9 against and 4 abstentions.
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Regarding this, according to Fujimori Patricia Juárez, the measure will not reach those who have a final sentence for illegal mining, money laundering or human trafficking, nor those who have been penalized for carrying out illicit mining activities in non-permitted areas.
Nor should it apply to those who carry out mining activities in non-permitted areas, such as archaeological zones, protected natural areas, indigenous reserves, territorial reserves in the process of adaptation and bodies of water (rivers, lakes, lagoons, wetlands, streams, springs, glaciers, channels and riverbanks, among others), said Juárez.
Meanwhile, Salhuana voted in favor but with the observation of the general nature of the suspension of exclusions: “to say that all exclusion procedures are suspended goes against all administrative reasoning,” he indicated.
