Senator from Salta, Flavia Royón, using her access to official information and influence on state decisions, obtained benefits for herself and the companies she belongs to and represents. Thus, she subverted public interests, neglecting her role as a guarantor of public goods. Royón held key positions in Argentina's mining and energy policy. She promoted a reform that could increase the value, demand, and importance of services offered by a company of which she was a part. Specific projects and names have been identified: a network of business interests with multimillion-dollar investments. Royón put her public office, career, and influence at the service of projects that seek to remove legal barriers to advance upon glaciers, periglacial environments, salt flats, and high-altitude ecosystems. We need representatives who serve the people, not mining projects. One of the points of the accusation is Royón's promotion of a regressive reform of the Glacier Law in the National Congress. What needs to be investigated is an architecture of relationships between political power, public office, private boards, technical studies, extractive projects, and multimillion-dollar economic interests. At stake is the integrity of the public function and the defense of territories strategic for water. The Lithium Table articulates decisions and strategies between the Nation and provinces like Salta, Jujuy, and Catamarca, where much of the extractive advance on salt flats and high-altitude ecosystems is concentrated. From that position, Royón was not an observer. She is part of the mining map where water, lithium, salt flats, debris glaciers, periglacial environments, and multimillion-dollar businesses intersect. While intervening from the State and later from the Senate on the rules of the game, Royón was linked to private companies operating or advising in the same territories, in the same sectors, for the same interests. Another fact denounced is the overlap between her public role as Executive Secretary of the Lithium Table and her business participation. Information is also requested on sworn asset declarations, public appointments, tax records, bank accounts, and corporate documentation from 2020 to the present. In addition, measures are requested to access the commercial premises and administrative offices of the firms involved, with the aim of obtaining documentation on their operations, their contractual relationships with mining companies, and the position held by Royón within that structure. One of the notable incompatibilities arises from her role as a director on the mining holding company Zelandez, a technology firm that provides services for lithium and copper projects, including hydrogeological modeling and water balances. She could not intervene in a reform with direct economic effects on companies, projects, and service chains with which she was and is linked. This criterion is not abstract: it opens the door to freeing up territories currently protected for the advance of extractive projects. Zelandez provides exactly this type of technical service: hydrogeological modeling and water balances for mining projects. This coincidence constitutes a picture of serious incompatibility and a possible use of the public function to favor private interests. The revolving door is not a symbolic problem: it is a concrete mechanism for the capture of the State for particular interests. The complaint also seeks to reconstruct the corporate, tax, and asset structure linked to Royón and the companies involved. Among them is the mining company Rio Tinto, cited as a client of Zelandez, owner of the Los Azules project in San Juan, and the Rincón de Litio project in Salta, promoted under the RIGI, with an estimated investment of over 2,724 million dollars. Royón voted for the reform. The incompatibility is even more evident when one looks at the content of the reform. From these positions, she had an impact on public policies, regulations, authorizations, articulation between governments, and the definition of priorities for different sectors. Because defending glaciers, water, and territories also requires denouncing those who turn the public function into a platform for private business.
