2023-08-14 19:24:17
“For the dialogue to make sense and empathize with what Chile thinks, there is a step that the government must take: substantially change the bad reform projects that it has supported,” said the president of the UDI, Javier Macaya.
(From Santiago, Chile) Giorgio Jackson is but a memory in the Boric administration. The Chilean president’s squire resigned at the last minute on Friday from the Ministry of Social Development, but his resignation is far from having decompressed the environment, as promised.
The UDI, the opposition party to the government, had conditioned the dialogue on key reforms promoted by the government (pensions and fiscal pact) to the departure of Jackson. But, once the resignation was completed, they have raised his requirements once more.
Through his account on that social network that was once known as Twitter, Javier Macaya, president of the right-wing party, wrote that “the UDI is ready to talk with the government. For the dialogue to make sense and empathize with what Chile thinks, there is a step that the government must take: substantially change the bad refoundational reform projects that it has supported”.
The one who came out of these statements was Carolina Tohá. The Minister of the Interior said “I think it is a list of words that sound bombastic, but that are not true. Government projects are moderate. These are projects that bring Chile closer to the models of the most developed countries in the world. They are far from being ideological and extreme projects but, in addition, they are projects in which we have given in and made many of its elements more flexible, seeking an agreement”.
In his statement, he added that “all of Chile witnessed for weeks and weeks how it was said that the condition for sitting down was that Minister Jackson was no longer part of the cabinet. We all hear it. For this reason, I urge you to resume dialogue.”
Macaya’s response was not long in coming. Through the same social network, she published if Tohá’s invitation was “Dialogue or imposition? When the government is inflexible to projects that the vast majority of citizens reject, a giant doubt enters. Minister Carolina Tohá, if the government accepts to modify its bad reforms, the conversation might be successful”.
In the midst of this atmosphere of bickering, the Ministers of Labor and Finance, Jeannette Jara and Mario Marcel began a joint tour in which they will visit 10 cities in the south of the country to publicize the reforms proposed by the government.
The Minister of Labor, Jeannette Jara, and the Minister of Finance, Mario Marcel; They began an informative tour of different cities to socialize the scope of the reforms promoted by the government.
Before getting on the train that would transfer them, Minister Jara referred this morning to what Javier Macaya said: “it is time for excuses to end.” She then explained the scope of the pension reform. Although there is agreement that the individual contribution of each worker should rise by 6%, the government intends to distribute this capitalization between the individual account of each contributor and another amount to a solidarity fund, which they say would automatically increase the pensions of retirees.
The right, very much in line with the private pension administrators, say that all that 6% should go to individual accounts. There’s the top.
“The truth is that in a negotiation the idea is precisely to talk regarding those elements that have to do, among other things, with the distribution of 6% social security. What does have to be clear is that if we have a model in which the full 6% goes to individual capitalization here the pensions will not go up for another 30 years,” said the minister.
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