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The activity of this Monday in Congress has been marked by the reactions after last day the Government will specify the presentation of a request before the Constitutional Court, against the transitory reform with which the opposition wants there to be a second withdrawal of pension savings.
With it, it seems take force the Executive’s project for a withdrawal but with limitations, in two installments and with different deadlines and mandatory return -for what has been considered a “self-loan” -.
The counterproposal of La Moneda will continue to be analyzed this day by the United Finance and Labor committees of the Senate, just in its first process; While the opposition reform – challenged before the TC – is already on the table to be voted on in the Chamber on Wednesday, in the second process.
This because the presentation to the Constitutional Court, which “is within the powers of the Executive, does not suspend the processing of a bill in the National Congress “, clarified Senator Claudio Alvarado (UDI), former Minister of the Segpres.
The Senator Jorge Pizarro (DC) hopes that “on Wednesday we will first vote on the constitutional reform (of the opposition) and we hope we will have the votes to approve it; if that is approved, the project presented by the Government has no destination, it does not make sense.”
However, in the opposition they analyze the possibles scenarios, one of which is that in this framework the Government managed to convince the five pro-government senators who had announced their support for this initiative, so that they change their mind and give your support to the Executive’s proposal.
Then, it is probable that the withdrawal of the opposition – universal, without taxes and in a single installment – will be rejected because it would not reach the quorums (three fifths, 26 votes). If it happens, it must return to the Lower House and then move on to a possible mixed commission.
In that scenario, the Senator Pizarro stated that they would have to approve the Government’s project.
“WE ARE GOING TO MODIFY THE GOVERNMENT PROJECT, WHICH IS BAD”
In fact, the Senator Álvaro Elizalde (PS) announced that they will make changes: “There is no doubt that we are going to modify that project because it is a bad project.”
“It is a project that establishes restrictions, establishes the logic of loans and that goes against what is contained in the constitutional reform, which consists of the aid reaching Chilean families quickly given the drama they are experiencing,” said the socialist helmsman.
“THOUSANDS COULD REMAIN WITHOUT PAYING THE FOOD PENSION”
The possibility that the TC declares unconstitutional the reform for a second withdrawal, It also threatens the project that is being processed in parallel, directly linked to that measure, which empowers family judges to order forced removal of these funds for the payment of alimony debts.
The deputy carolina marzán (PPD), one of the promoters of this proposal, warned that “with the government’s decision we could leave, once again, thousands of girls, boys and adolescents, without the possibility of paying their alimony debt.”
thus, “It is urgent that the forced withdrawal project be discussed in the Senate for the payment of alimony owed, firstly because the Government’s project includes withholding for alimony payments with the same difficulties that occurred in the first withdrawal. “
This initiative, approved in the first process in the Lower House two weeks ago, was proposed through the transitory reform mechanism, such as the second withdrawal, but the Executive did not appeal against it in the TC.
