On the brink of restarting legislative activity, the Minister of the Interior, Carolina Tohá (PPD), stated in Cooperativa that this year is key for the future of the structural reforms promoted by the Government, mainly tax and pension reforms, and warned that the outcome will be a “litmus test” for the political class.
“It may seem very complex, but at the end of the day it is not so complex. When you want something to work out, you have to give in, it’s that simple (…) I’m not going to lose hope that we all give in and build a solution,” said the chief of staff, highlighting that the Executive has already done so in the forecast debate.
In this context, he explained that “as a Government we now have a fundamental moment, because this year is the year in which we have to give an outcome to this issue of pensions and tax reform or the fiscal pact at this point,” emphasizing that “This opportunity for us is a litmus test, but also for the opposition,” which “was already Government on two occasions and also paid harshly for the lack of agreements that exists in Chilean politics.”
“Tomorrow we are going to govern again, or perhaps the current opposition will govern, (but) if we do not get out of this obstacle that we are in, governing becomes more and more difficult and the people’s irritation increases. growing more,” he noted.
Along the same lines, he stated that the fact that the two previous governments had to generate deficits “to meet the needs of the population”, which the current administration has been reducing, had the “consequence that many matters are waiting: for For example, the pension reform, the PDI staff reform, also a bigger leap in strengthening public health, in creating a care system for people who depend on another.”
Highlighting the need for all forces to show willingness, he warned that “the second problem is that not only are these problems not resolved as long as they do not give in, but citizens become irritated and disenchanted with politics, and when there is disenchantment in democracy With politics, we then resort to caudillismos, to authoritarianism, to populist solutions, which are very bad for the countries.
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