Around midnight this Monday, the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies rejected the project presented by the government that proposed a limited withdrawal of AFP funds. The norm can be replaced by the Executive in the Senate, but it must go through an extensive legislative process.
With 68 votes in favor and 63 against, the Lower House dismissed the “alternative” initiative presented by the government, where it only had the support of the official Approve Dignity parties and certain parliamentarians from the former coalition.
Likewise, the Lower House also rejected the initiative that sought a fifth universal withdrawal, which was proposed by a group of deputies and deputies. In this regard, the Segpres minister, Giorgio Jackson, indicated that it is a “difficult situation to understand” and that they will concentrate on promoting the structural reforms contemplated in the government plan.
“The government program of President Gabriel Boric did not contemplate within its agenda to incorporate a new withdrawal of pension funds, but instead focused on the structural reforms that the country requires, both in terms of pensions and others, so that people may have permanent relief from lawsuits they’ve waited so long for,” he said.
“We thought that it was the parliamentarians themselves who had raised concerns about the issues that we put on the table, the ones who were going to incite a majority. It turns out that the same parliamentarians who approved the bill in the Labor committee, later They ended up rejecting him in the room. It is a difficult situation to understand, “he added.
In that sense, Minister Jackson said that “now as an Executive we are fully committed to fulfilling the mandate we have, which is to propose to the country a comprehensive and significant reform of the pension system in order to guarantee social security.”
On the other hand, the Minister of Finance, Mario Marcel, affirmed that “it is evident that the quorum required to approve the massive and unconditional withdrawal was not reached, but that a majority was not even reached.”
“That indicates that the arguments that we put on the table were understood by the parliamentarians. I think it was understood that this was a different scenario from the one that existed in the first withdrawal, and that the damage that this would have caused to the citizenry would have been much greater. than any punctual benefit that it would have generated for certain people,” he said.
“We collected the concerns expressed by the parliamentarians during the first stage of the discussion of the constitutional reform. Finally we found that there was not enough support to approve it,” he added.
For her part, the Minister of Labor, Jeannette Jara, took advantage of the opportunity to make an announcement to the public after the rejection of the initiatives.
“We want to point out that we have a full agenda for the next few days and we believe it is super important to evaluate the steps to be followed by the Government. In particular, we want to emphasize that a salary bill will be presented in the next few days minimum and that it will be in agreement with the workers’ organizations,” he concluded.
