Government confirms free Metro, Merval and Biotren

After days of debate on whether public transport should have no cost to the constitutional plebiscite, he government announced the free Metro in Santiago, of Merval and of Biotren, so that the process is “as participatory as possible“.

In an advertisement in The coin between the minister Jaime Bellolio and the Minister of Transport Gloria Hutt, the spokesperson noted that “an extraordinary budget allocation is going to be made, given the extraordinary condition of the plebiscite “.

Bellolio insisted that it is “an extraordinary effort“and which is added to” more than two thousand free services for isolated sectors and 50% of discount on the passage of older adults“.

It is that from the executive they had been against the idea of ​​not charging in public transport and even Hutt had described the idea as “difficult”, adding that “now we do not have that availability and especially in regions it is complex“.

Despite this, the Government backed down and assured the measure so that “Let democracy triumph and put violence aside“in the plebiscite of the next Sunday October 25.

Check out the government announcement on free transportation for the plebiscite: