President Gabriel Boric heads a working meeting with the ministers of all the portfolios of his government, one day after exactly one month since his arrival in La Moneda, with the aim of addressing the national deployment to publicize the plan of economic recovery called “Chile Supports”.
Let us remember that the package of measures includes an extension of the Labor IFE, an increase in the BAES food scholarship, a rise in the minimum wage to the amount of $400,000, a greater number of jobs and the freezing of the price of the transport ticket. public.
The appointment will last until about 1:00 p.m., when the spokeswoman Camila Vallejo comes out to deliver more details of the meeting.
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Shortly before the meeting began, President Gabriel Boric approached the neighbors who were waiting for him outside the Casona Compañía, located a few meters from the presidential residence in the Yungay neighborhood, from where he stated that “we have completed a month and it is important take stock of this first month and deploy ourselves on the ground throughout the national territory”.
For her part, Minister Camila Vallejo commented that “we are going to take stock of the first four weeks of installation, and then we are going to project what remains of work for the month and probably a deployment in regions, all the balance has to do with evaluations both positive and self-critical of these four weeks”.
Returning to the plan, it should be noted that the Executive branch indicated that the “Chile Supports” proposal will be supported through six axes: reintegration into paid formal work, public investment, support for sectors lagging behind in recovery, promotion of MSMEs, income and cost of living, institutionalization of economic and social protection mechanisms.
In greater detail, President Boric reported that 1,386 million dollars will be invested in job creation and support for lagging sectors, US$1,340 million in direct aid to families and 1,000 million dollars in support of MSMEs.
