can't import imagemin with ES in nodej V16.15

Question

I'm trying to use image to save the images in webp format, but the npm documentation to use it does an import imagemin from "imagemin" but nodejs v16.15.0 but it throws a syntax error on import

import imageminWebp from 'imagemin-webp';

(async () => {
    await imagemin(['images/*.{jpg,png}'], {
        destination: 'build/images',
        plugins: [
            imageminWebp({quality: 50})
        ]
    });

    console.log('Images optimized');
})();

I've tried using the require with default at the end but I still get the same error. I don't know how I could import it since the only ways I see are these, I'm importing it to use it inside a route controller