The president of the Council of Ministers, Ernesto Álvarez, warned that the Executive will only sign the bill that expands the Comprehensive Registry of Mining Formalization (Reinfo) approved this Wednesday by the Permanent Commission of Congress only if it conforms to the Government’s approach: an extension limited to one year and without opening the door to the re-entry of the nearly 50 thousand miners who were excluded from the formalization process.
“The Executive, from the beginning, had the approach that was reached to Congress, so that a closed line is not maintained, because there is artisanal and informal mining that does want to be formalized,” said the premier.
Álvarez rejected the versions about the lack of a firm and clear position by the Government on this issue, calling them “misinformation” and ensuring that the Executive was consistent from the beginning of conversations with Congress.
For the owner of the PCM, the State cannot legitimize illegal activities of miners who intend to use, without any right or legitimacy, territories that do not belong to them.
The opinion approved by the Permanent Commission was supported by 13 congressmen, while four voted against and two abstained. The debate passed without major surprises and fortunately there were no unpleasant surprises in the replacement text, since the approved norm also ratifies the exclusion from the process of more than 50,000 informal miners who today are in an illegal situation.
Precisely this point and the reduction of the extension of the Reinfo from two years to one are in line with the line proposed by the Executive in the letter it sent to Congress and which it considered non-negotiable.
The Plenary accepted this approach in its session on December 4 and the decision reached on Wednesday by the Permanent Commission leaves the door open for President José Jerí to promulgate the norm.
At the time, after its approval in the plenary session, the head of state indicated that he was “preliminarily in agreement” with the opinion in the first vote.
According to article 108 of the Constitution, the president will have 15 business days to approve the law after receiving the document that Congress will send him.
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