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There are two projects in the race in Congress that seek, in a different way, to withdraw 10% of the AFPs. One of them is the one that has been processing for the longest time, which was presented by opposition deputies and proposes that the withdrawals be universal. But yesterday the government entered its own project, to limit the withdrawal of funds.
The president of the Senate, Adriana Muñoz, commented this morning on radio Duna that “all these days we have been talking with the government, with the Minister of Finance, Ignacio Briones, the Minister of Labor, María José Zaldívar, and the Minister of the Segpres , Cristián Monckeberg; where they have raised the decision they made to advance in a second withdrawal of 10% through a law and abandon, and it is a clear signal that the government gives, the process through a constitutional reform “.
Moreover, he pointed out that the government “has even announced that it is going to take this reform to the Constitutional Court (TC), which was already dispatched yesterday afternoon by the Senate Constitution Commission, and we understand that in these days it is going to make the presentation to the TC “.
In this sense, in the opinion of the senator, “the presentation of this bill is due to an active intervention that the President and the government have made on this occasion; he did not do so in the first withdrawal, in relation to ordering his parliamentarians, because let’s not forget that the second withdrawal in the Chamber of Deputies was approved by 130 votes, 44 of which were from government parliamentarians. “
Now are the votes to approve the constitutional reform presented by opposition deputies or not? “Here I read as a clear intervention by the President of the government in this process in the Senate, to order his parliamentarians, and I understand that many of them already, we had more or less five government senators who were going to support the constitutional reform I understand that today several have publicly stated that they no longer support it and that they are going to work towards the bill that the government has presented, ”said the President of the Senate.
This is why he pointed out that “the first result is already in sight, that in reality with this intervention of the President, the votes to approve the constitutional reform, we have to start again to review if they will be available; those that we anticipated would be from the colleagues of the ruling party “.
But aren’t there the votes? “No, because the 3/5 (of the quorum required by the constitutional reform) is 26 votes, and the 2/3 is 29. In the opposition there are 24 (senators), so either of the two voting quorums is not enough. , by the amount of senators we have ”.
More about Withdrawal of funds
Yesterday the Constitution Commission sent to the Senate room the motion that seeks to withdraw 10% of the AFPs universally through a constitutional reform.
When could you vote in the hall? “With the presentation of this project (by the government) it slows down a bit. Our calculations were that, once the constitutional reform project has been dispatched from the Constitution Commission, the report is ready, we have talked with the president of the Constitution Commission, Alfonso de Urresti, and he has raised his opinion that we put them on Wednesday in table ”.
Regarding the government project, which begins to be processed at 2:00 p.m. today in the Senate’s joint Finance and Labor committees, the parliamentarian said that “it will be a fairly strong debate with the opposition, there are several issues, the edges that the government, the limits that it places on retirement, a significant amount of what the government proposes there, it will be almost impossible for opposition senators to debate.
What kinds of themes look impossible? “The issue of the return, for example, that it is mandatory; the subject of the APV; a series of restrictions, and it is almost self-financing, because if I withdraw my resources, then I have to return them. In addition, the tax issue, perhaps the tax issue is the one we could discuss the most (…) but the rest, that the axis of the project is self-financing, which ultimately I have to return that, it is impossible, it is unlikely ”.
Regarding this, he added that “I cannot speak for all opposition senators, but at least my opinion and what I have heard from Senator Lagos Weber, Senator Rincón, Senator Letelier, Senator Goic, it is quite unlikely that in those matters we can move forward, and what I understand, it will be unlikely that the processing of this project will be quick, although it has entered with great urgency “.
In any case, the president of the Senate affirmed: “I am convinced that 10%, the second withdrawal, will be a reality.”
