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If there is something that the President, Sebastián Piñera, resists, it is irrelevance. He does not accept that his administration has been under the “lame duck syndrome” for a long time, that his government program was shattered after the social outbreak of 2019 and that his leadership not only does not have citizen support, but also has no influence on their own hosts, the benches of the ruling party. But, much to his regret, this is precisely what happens to his administration and this was demonstrated once again yesterday with the devastating vote in the Chamber of Deputies of the second withdrawal of 10% of the AFPs, which made it clear that the presidential guidelines for the right are featherweight.
In La Moneda they always knew that the result of the second withdrawal vote would be a defeat for them, but until yesterday morning the bet was still that the figure in the Chamber of the Chamber was not going to reach 103 votes, which left the Government margin to maintain the speech of resorting to the TC under the argument – as in July – that said reform requires a quorum of 2/3 and not 3/5 (93 votes), which is with which has processed. But the result of the vote was overwhelming, 130 votes in favor, which far exceeded the registered for the first withdrawal.
The problem for the government today is not only that its hands were tied, but that an internal crisis was unleashed again with its own coalition. It is not only a matter of the fact that a majority group of deputies of the ruling party “detached” from the official position of La Moneda to reject this second withdrawal, but also the virulence with which the parliamentarians of Chile Vamos referred to the mismanagement of his own government to face the economic crisis, which exposed live and direct the absolute weakness of the leadership of President Piñera and his team of political ministers.
La Moneda was warned on countless occasions from the ruling party of the need not to repeat the book of errors made in the processing of the first withdrawal of 10%. The same times that its leaders and parliamentarians requested that the Government put on the table a concrete alternative for the citizens, which would serve as a valid argument for the parliamentarians to reject the project. But in the Palace they looked undaunted, ignored the warnings and, instead of listening to their own sector, they preferred to play their own cards: linking the initiative to the pension reform, which failed to move the needle in their favor in no sense. That single attempt was widely criticized from the palace inmate, who accused a lack of management and political vision both on the part of the Presidency and the second floor.
Thus, there are not a few who yesterday in the Palace criticized that the issue was allowed to take its own flight, support for over 75% in polls such as Criteria or Tú Influyes and that, for the same reason, when the Government tried to change the course of events, trying to channel the debate through indications, it was too late.
The erratic nature of this late strategy was demonstrated by the rejection of all the indications presented by Chile Vamos with the agreement of the Government on the last day, as well as the fact that the one that established a retirement tax in the Chamber did not survive either. cases of salaries greater than 2.5 million pesos. “A total failure”, they stressed in the ruling party.
The “icing on the cake” of a black Tuesday for La Moneda, was put by the head of the UDI bench, María José Hoffmann, who during her speech in the Chamber announced a change in the relationship of the union deputies with the Government: “We are not willing to continue assuming the costs due to the lack of a clear line.”
The political committee of Palacio was, once again, questioned by –the right wing accused– its lack of strength, strategy and results. Yesterday there were several internal recriminations from the different ministries, from which they accused each other of a lack of “will” and the little “capacity” of both their teams and their ministers. Not only that, the UDI warning did not leave the new Interior Minister Rodrigo Delgado on a good footing, since not all the meetings he held with the directors and parliamentarians of Chile Vamos these days had a minimal effect on the coalition. A “reality bath”, they said wryly on the right and that spotted his debut.
Nothing worked for the Government yesterday, because, to try to overshadow the issue of the second withdrawal, La Moneda strategically made President Piñera’s trip coincide with Minister Delgado to La Araucanía, where the President announced that a special manager would be appointed for the region, as demanded by the Evópoli parliamentarians who maintain frozen relations, and also indicated that he will present a bill to create the June 24 holiday, to commemorate the indigenous new year.
But all that deployment not only did not have the desired effects, but also the results to which the Government aspired, because both the president of Evópoli, Andrés Molina, and the senator for the region, Felipe Kast, accused an insufficiency in the proposal presidential and hoping for a plan to complement it.
Monckeberg in the trade union sights
As the votes were counted and it was realized that the defeat would far exceed the Government’s calculations, eyes were quickly fixed on the Minister of the Segpres, Cristián Monckeberg (RN).
From his ministry, they defended the steps previously taken by the former president of RN to try to change the scenario, such as having pushed the presentation of indications, having put the need for a pension reform, targeting as central points of the discussion and having provided information to the benches, along with a series of coordination appointments.
But apparently the efforts themselves would not have been the problem, but the fact that Minister Monckeberg would already be in the sights of the UDI, something that they have already assumed both in the Segpres itself and in RN.
Moreover, they said that this is why deputy Hoffmann announced the change of treatment of her bench with the Government, and from the party chaired by Senator Rafael Prohens they did not hesitate to interpret the maneuver of the parliamentarian as one more attempt to weaken the figure of the minister, who last week had already received a public assault from the UDI president, Jacqueline van Rysselberghe, who accused him of not having done enough to prevent the constitutional accusation against Víctor Pérez from being approved in the Chamber of Deputies , which triggered his resignation from the Ministry of the Interior: “If the Government has an opinion in relation to the constitutional accusation of its main minister, what one expects is that the minister in charge of the relationship of the Government and with Parliament, and in particular with the official parties, see him committed to the issue.
In National Renewal there is no doubt that, as they did with the former Minister of the Interior, Gonzalo Blumel, the UDI will not stop until it tries to unseat Monckeberg, one of the representatives of “the other right” – the one of the Approval and the one that agrees with the political line that today Minister Mario Desbordes has marked – in decision-making in the Palace.
The night of the long knives
In La Moneda and in the Chilean Vamos parties, some considered that what happened yesterday marked a turning point, not only due to the deepening of the internal breakdown in the ruling party, but also considering that the timer with a view to the presidential elections runs against and all the movement of pieces that it carries with it.
In this context, from Renovación Nacional there are not a few who have once again placed their mistrust in the work that the powerful chief of advisers of the second floor, Cristián Larroulet, would be doing, linked to the world of unionism and one of the men closest to the figure from the best positioned candidate in the sector, the UDI Joaquín Lavín. Hand in hand with this, they accused that a hostile climate is being generated against Monckeberg within the Palace with the aim – they accused – of getting him and Desbordes out of the way, who is already emerging as a possible presidential letter.
More than one yesterday took note of a not minor scene: after the defeat of the Government in Congress, the image of Minister Monckeberg facing only the press, without any of his Palace peers flanking him, “is not free”, they argued.
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