The ministers of the Segegob and the Interior, camila vallejo and Carolina Toharespectively, pointed out that the irruption of the former president sebastian pinera influenced the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies to reject the tax reform project.
Let us remember that the Lower House rejected the initiative yesterday with 73 votes in favor, 71 against and three abstentions. The votes against were from Chile Vamos, the Republican Party, PDG, some independents and the ex-DC Miguel Angel Callisto and Joanna Perez.
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Minister Vallejo pointed out in conversation with Chilevision that “the factor I believe, and this is a judgment that must be analyzed in greater depth, but the irruption of former president Sebastián Piñera to align to the right in the rejection of increasing taxes on people who have the most, I think it was also decisive”.
In turn, he maintained that “it is evident that there are some who prefer seeing the government defeated or making the government fail in its public policies, in its program, in its reforms, rather than being able to increase resources for people’s pensions.”
For her part, the Minister of the Interior, Carolina Tohá, indicated that “President Piñera appeared two days ago. Why now after a year of not showing up? He appears just at that moment to prevent Chile from advancing in a reform, but we cannot fall into that guerrilla now ”.
Asked if there were government errors in the midst of discussing the project, Tohá pointed out that “the votes of the ruling party were all there yesterday, without exception.”
He added that “during all this time, from the point of view of winning those votes, it was what is necessary to do, dialogue with all the actors. Here something was done that had never been done in a tax reform, which was a process of citizen dialogue in all regions, a listening process”.
