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The failure of the constitutional accusation against the former Minister of the Interior, Víctor Pérez, was a real relief for La Moneda, it put cold cloths on the tense climate that exists between the parties of Chile Vamos and released the pressure on the permanence in the Government of certain ministers. “A visible triumph was needed”, they affirmed in the Palace. But it is only that, a respite, because from within the Piñerista administration they recognized that the pressure cooker is there, latent, to the doors to explode before the next error, misstep or defeat, as the imminent approval of the second withdrawal of 10% of the AFPs in the Senate Chamber can become.
Indeed these days the pressure for a new change in the political team of the President, Sebastián Piñera, dropped a few decibels, but behind the scenes in the Palace, concern and conflicts persist, derived from the series of political bills receivable that the parties have of Chile Vamos, which represents a permanent risk of political destabilization for the Government.
For this reason, an eventual new suspension from the banks of Chile Let’s go, now in the Senate, of the guidelines that La Moneda has set to prevent the second withdrawal project from being approved as it came out of the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies, will take The insurmountable quarrels that prevail in the ruling party afloat again and would provoke – they fear at the headquarters of the Executive – a new political crisis for the Government.
And it is that the fratricidal struggle on the right has become a never-ending problem for La Moneda, which constantly leaves the government between a rock and a hard place, unable to take the reins, an immobility that splashes on President Piñera himself. It is precisely for this reason that the President’s onslaught this week, from the pulpit of Sofofa and with the business community as a backdrop, is explained – they pointed out in the ruling party – of lashing out at Congress, accusing it of wanting to twist the hand of the Constitution, along with the threat to appeal to the Constitutional Court (TC) if the second withdrawal of 10% is dispatched by the Legislative Power.
That is why yesterday, after the vote in the Senate Constitution Committee, the Government insisted that it will present a constitutionality reservation to the second withdrawal and that is why, at the end of the day, La Moneda hit the table and presented its own 10% project, limited, limited and with mandatory refund of funds, which will delay the parliamentary discussion of the issue.
In the ruling party they explained that Piñera’s idea was to give a signal to his own coalition, to sectors of Chile Vamos, who on several occasions had demanded that La Moneda stop taking the stage on the 10% issue, assume a clear position and go , effectively, to the TC to try to prevent the second withdrawal from taking effect. In fact, that request was made for the last time by the heads of the right wing – who are all marked by their support for the Rejection in the plebiscite – during the meeting they held in Valparaíso with the new Interior Minister, Rodrigo Delgado.
Extra life
Since the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies approved the constitutional accusation against Víctor Pérez a couple of weeks ago, the Minister of the Segpres, Cristián Monckeberg, has been in the crosshairs of the UDI, a party that has publicly lashed out and criticized him without regard. But these days he managed to earn an extra life in the game of political survival in the Palace – according to the government itself – since, when the libel was shipwrecked in the Senate, Monckeberg managed “for now” to escape the unionist “carnage” to unseat him from the cabinet.
Of course, everyone in La Moneda knows that any setback could reactivate the pressure from the unionism to modify the composition of the political committee, because – as the saying that circulates in the Government goes – “the UDI does not forgive.” And it is that after leaving “marked” the minister of the Segpres, now the party led by senator Jacqueline Van Rysselberghe once again attacked Evópoli, once again conflicting with the ruling party.
The foregoing, after Deputy Luciano Cruz-Coke gave the vote that made the project that sought to exclude mayors from the new law that limits re-election failures. This issue is a wound that has not closed in the unionism and for which the bill was passed to Gonzalo Blumel at the time when he was Minister of the Interior, who they blamed for not having influenced everything that was expected for the Government to veto the reelection law that left the conglomerate with a fierce problem filling the candidate templates for municipal elections.
There are two factors that have shielded Minister Monckeberg from the UDI onslaught. One, the fact of having arrival in the opposition, something that is confirmed by the Constituent Unit and the Frente Amplio; the other, that belonging to the more liberal right, to that of the Approve and the sector led by Minister Mario Desbordes, allows President Piñera to prevent his administration from being totally and absolutely marked by the harder right.
In fact, the presence in the cabinet of both, Desbordes and Monckeberg, allows the President to maintain a balance in his Government between the two souls on the right, something that has generated high degrees of discomfort from the toughest sector of the ruling party, considering that said authorities have fallen into ideological resignation on several occasions, from the delivery of the 1980 Constitution to the withdrawal of funds from the AFPs.
Such is the resistance and hives that both characters generate, that in RN they have even talked about a kind of underhand persecution against those who are aligned in the Government with the Desbordes sector.
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