The bench of senators of Approve Dignity announced an agreement to request a second discussion this Wednesday and to postpone the vote on TPP-11 in the Senate Chamber for next week.
Senators from Approve Dignity, agreed to ask for a second discussion this Wednesday, and force the TPP-11 vote be postponed to next week.
The intention of the ruling senators is to buy time for the executive, considering that the request they made to the opposition benches was that the legislative committee give the government a deadline to advance in the bilateral letters that are part of its central strategy.
The request did not work. With the vote of the Christian Democracy and all the opposition groups, The table was approved for this Wednesday of the Comprehensive and Progressive Treaty of Trans-Pacific Association, initially known as TPP-11.
The National Renovation Senator, Rodrigo Galilea, recalls that the Finance Minister himself, Mario Marcel, recognized the benefits of ratifying the treaty.
In I Approve Dignity they repeat like a mantra that this Treaty ‘is not in the Government’s program’ and its reservations with the dispute resolution mechanisms between investors and the State remain.
This gives rise to the strategy already used in the pardon debate during the month of August by the same sector, and forces to have a debate session and another voting session, which would be next Tuesday, October 4.
The head of the caucus of the Social Green Regionalist Federation, Senator Esteban Velásquez, adds to the critical position of the sector, that the will should have been shown to give more time to the Government’s efforts.
The key vote for the table was that of the Christian Democracy. The Falangist senator, Matías Walker, has insisted on the ‘nonsense’ that Chile was an articulator of the TPP-11 and that it has not yet been ratified.
Walker says that contrary to what critics say, environmental standards will be raised, pointing out that the country cannot “afford” not to be part of the treaty.
In any case, in conversation with ‘Pod Ser Otra Cosa’, the senator of the Communist Party, Daniel Núñez, lamented Walker’s support and said that it goes once morest ‘all logic’ that the government was not given time to continue with the dialogue. with member countries.
Until last week, La Radio sources assured that the Chilean State had already managed to close bilateral letters with two or three signatory countries, but from the opposition they have slipped that the Executive would have asked for at least until November to be able to vote on the agreement in the Chamber.
In the chamber they look with distance and somewhat helplessly at what is happening in the Senate, and on Monday voices were added, both in public and in private, to the idea that the path for this treaty is to withdraw it and restart the process with a different state position.
