Crucial hours live the project of the fifth retreat of the AFPs. This, since, despite the fact that the initiative will begin to be voted on between the middle and the end of April, during the day this coming Tuesday, the idea of legislating in the Constitution Commission will be voted on amid calls from the government not to approve the project.
“It is employment that generates permanent income for people, not a transfer of pension savings,” said Finance Minister Mario Marcel.
Faced with this scenario, where the fifth withdrawal is rapidly approaching its first legislative process, Rodrigo Wagner, doctor in political economy from Harvard University, commented to The Counter in the Keythe problem generated by resorting to this type of measure, alluding to the fact that what allows them not to appear is “taking care of issues on time”.
“The problem is not the fifth withdrawal in itself, but the sixth, seventh, eighth…the collapse of the system, and I believe that this must be avoided because otherwise, we do not have any system, neither with AFP nor with private savings That has to be stopped because if not, we don’t have long-term stability for pensions,” he said.
“The big problem here is how we build a pension system that lasts, because Chile has already broken pension systems in the same way and that is something we have to take on,” he added.
With the rapid progress of the project, the government and President Boric himself has one last option left: the veto of the initiative, which would generate a dilemma within the ruling party. For Wagner, this is a big problem that could leave the main critics within the government, such as Minister Marcel, President Boric, Minister Jackson, among others, “bad.”
“It’s a very complicated situation because an expectation is built, some parliamentarians build an expectation on the public, this expectation turns around and then a snowball that is very difficult to stop and whoever goes against it is a steamroller”, manifested.
“Taking charge of the issues in time helps this weed of withdrawals not take flight, because once it takes hold, it is unstoppable, whether they are governments of the right or left,” he concluded.
