With a call to business, President Gabriel Boric addressed one of the Government’s priorities: the tax reform that must be presented to Congress. After a meeting with the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT), in the run-up to International Workers’ Day, the president stated that next week “we are going to have an intense legislative agenda.”
President Gabriel Boric reported that he has been signing a series of projects, within the framework of the agreement with the CUT, and that they hope they will have the complement and support of parliamentarians. In that sense, along with highlighting that the minimum wage project was admitted with great urgency “so that this can be ratified as soon as possible”, he maintained that the tax reform “is structural” and “tremendously relevant”.
“One of the things with which we have committed ourselves is that the transformations that we want to promote in Chilean society must be carried out without pause and in a responsible manner and for that: to permanent expenses, permanent income,” said the head of state.
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President Gabriel Boric commented that the Minister of Finance Mario Marcel has already started the talks on the tax reform and under that premise he invited the big businessmen and the sectors with the most resources in the country “to come to a great tax pact “.
“This is not against each other, this is together for Chile, to have a better distribution of wealth and that we can have a more cohesive society, because what we have experienced in recent years reveals a very fragmented society that has many pains” . And to be able to solve it, it is not overnight, tax reform is an important part of that agenda and certainly one of our priorities for the coming months.”
Asked about the criticism of the subsidy for the basic food basket, President Boric explained that in a context of rising inflation both in Chile and in the world “we are very clear that we have to protect those who have fewer resources and therefore the agreement to that we have reached goes in parallel with a series of other measures that we promote from the Chile Supports program”.
“These measures are taken as a package. We are working on many fronts. The protected basic basket is one of them, because we know that inflation has hit hardest on those who need it most and that is why we are going to continue working on social benefits in a responsible manner. , because we have a commitment to fiscal responsibility so that the reforms we make are sustainable over time,” he concluded.
Accompanied by Labor Minister Jeannette Jara, Women’s Minister Antonia Orellana, Government spokesperson Camila Vallejo, and Foreign Minister Antonia Urrejola, President Gabriel Boric met with the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT) in the run-up to the Day Workers’ International, to, among other things, ratify ILO Convention 190, which seeks to eliminate gender-based violence at work and strengthen efforts to mitigate the consequences of domestic violence in the workplace.
In the instance, the President also affirmed that, both he and his Government, “we cannot forget where we come from, we owe ourselves to the workers.” At the beginning of his intervention, Gabriel Boric stated that it was an honor for him to be at the appointment.
“We come together with several of those present from several years of social struggle,” said the President of the Republic, recalling that more than ten years ago, as a student leader, he had several days of work with the CUT.
The CUT called a march for this Sunday that will begin at 10 in the morning in Plaza Baquedano and will end with a central act in Avenida Santa Rosa.
Leonel Sepúveda, vice president of the CUT, commented that “not only are we going to have this great central act here in Santiago, but throughout Chile more than 40 provinces of the country are summoned.”
“Many cultural acts and many marches are also called and other activities that the entire CUT has throughout the country. In the central act of the CUT, María Elisa Quinteros (president of the Constitutional Convention) will be in the speech, later we will have the speech of our president David Acuña”, he detailed.
