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The 2021 Budget project presented by the Government had a heated chapter last week, when the opposition rejected the departure of the Public Treasury. But far from easing, the tension remains at the top, and this Monday the Mixed Budget Commission was the scene of a new round, this time between the Budget Director, Matías Acevedo, and Senator Carlos Montes (PS).
During the debate, Acevedo accused Senator Montes of opening a “bellicose” environment around the 2021 Budget, alluding to a letter from the legislator to The Mercury where he spoke of an “improvised and opaque, arbitrary budget, with a language that I at least had not heard from Senator Montes before.”
“You cannot reach me and say that I have an aggressive tone when you opened this bellicose tone that does not contribute anything and if you, senator, want to play here in the mud, I am not going to accompany you. I come here to accompany the budget of the nation that President Piñera presented to Congress, “added Acevedo, annoyed with a previous intervention by Montes where he accused the Executive that” he did not open a dialogue and gave up, also with a language that is not proper to at least 30 years in this commission, it is not proper in the terms in which the budget director spoke here. “
Later, Senator Montes explained the impasse, pointing out that “the treatment of the Budget has been quite unprecedented, and in our opinion it lacks the clarity, transparency, fundamentals and orientation that we expected.” The legislator explained that “we made the Executive see it before entering the debate, but the Government was not very open to talking about these matters.”
After the rejection of the Public Treasury departure, Montes said that a space for dialogue was opened with the Executive. “We are working on indications these days, issues were worked on, but today the Government arrived with a very confrontational and belligerent attitude that prevents progress,” he said.
Referring to the exchange of this day, Senator PS indicated that “we hope that the Minister controls the Budget Director, that the debate is done seriously and does not lead us to fall into the terms that some of them are proposing and lead us to move along”.
“Micromachismo”
But this was not the only impasse starring the Budget Director, Matías Acevedo, this day. The official was also accused of “micromachismo” by Senator DC Yasna Provoste for ignoring his contributions in the budget discussion.
“I would like, on behalf of many women, to express my annoyance at the micromachismo expressed by the Director of Budgets and the complicit laughter of the Minister (Briones),” accused the senator.
“That is what is bad for our country, what is bad for our society … And that is why we, all of us, regardless of our gender, have to be able to change,” he added, as reported. Cooperative radio.
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