Everything is ready to extend it once again. Peru21 has been able to access the draft law that will be voted on this Tuesday afternoon in the Energy and Mines Commission of Congress, which proposes extending the Comprehensive Mining Formalization Registry (Reinfo) for two more years.
This means that Reinfo will be extended until December 2027. In addition, the measure establishes the reincorporation into that database of the 50 thousand illegal miners excluded by supreme decree No. 012-2025.
The document reviewed by this means also adds other facilities for informal miners, such as the continuity of the procedures in the mining formalization process for the 50 thousand excluded.
Predicted two-year extension of the Reinfo.
Likewise, it is planned to carry out a census of informal miners that will last between six months and a year.
If the report is approved this Tuesday, it will go to the Plenary for its final vote.
Meanwhile, the benches that support this sector are already known: Alliance for Progress (APP), Somos Perú, Socialist Bank, Together for Peru (JP) and Podemos Perú.
A key ally is JP’s Castilian bench, because its president, Victor Cutipaa member of that party, promised to approve all the bills presented by the informal miners of Confemin.
Peru21 He revealed last September the commitment that Cutipa made to Confemin.
THEY FENCE THE CONGRESS
Yesterday morning, the illegal and informal miners, grouped in Confemin, carried out a new siege on Congress at the entrances to Abancay Avenue, in order to pressure for the approval today of the prediction that proposes extending the Reinfo for two years, although they demand that it be between three and five.
On October 20, about a thousand miners from that union arrived in the capital and announced that they would not withdraw until the Legislature approves the extension of the Reinfo and the return of the 50,000 illegal miners.
Now they are one step away from making their demand a reality, with the help of their allied groups, especially Congressman Guido Bellido, who presented a bill to extend Reinfo for almost four years, until June 2029.
APPOINTMENT WITH JERÍ
In their latest moves to seek to extend the Reinfo, the Confemin miners met last Friday with President José Jerí at the Government Palace.
According to Perú21 sources, it was a work meeting, which is why there would be no public photographs.
The big question is whether Jerí will observe the law if it is approved today in the Energy and Mines Commission and, later, in the Plenary.
In the visitors’ notebook for that day it appears that he entered the Government Palace, but to the Secretariat, along with representatives of other unions such as Fenamarpe, Fename, Fedecin and others.
OPINION
Former Vice Minister of the Interior Ricardo Valdés: “The expansion was a popular topic”
“The first reading is to see where the different Reinfo expansion bills come from: Together for Peru – Voices of the PeoplePodemos and Socialist Bank.
And we must not forget that Máximo Franco, the president of Confemin, was registered until recently in Popular Renewal (and three leaders still are).
For me it was a popular topic (the expansion of the Reinfo) because they have been extending the period for discussion of the law (MAPE), they have been undermining the ideas around it, because without a doubt the most convenient thing for informals and illegals is to maintain this situation of indefinition, and above all the possibility of using the Reinfo as the patent of marque to be able to operate in any area of the country. What is Congress going to do? It is going to act under a criterion, surely, mercantilist and clientelist. “I estimate that there must be more or less a million voters who are behind that.”
I KNEW THAT
-Alert from SNMPE, Confiep and other business associations. Organizations such as ComexPerú, Confiep, SNI, ADEX, the National Society of Mining, Petroleum and Energy (SNMPE) and chambers of commerce from different regions warned that a new extension of Reinfo contravenes the international commitments assumed by the country in the Andean Policy to Fight Illegal Mining, promoted by the Andean Community (CAN).
-“Víctor Cutipa is washing his hands. He is co-author of the (expansion) initiative with Congressman Roberto Sánchez,” said the vice president of the Energy and Mines commission, Diana Gonzales.
-“I invite the Minister of Energy and Mines to be present today in the debate and vote on the report,” indicated the president of the Energy and Mines commission, Víctor Cutipa.
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