What you have to know this Tuesday in La Tercera: Piñera wins in the TC and third retirement is left without a floor

After a tie at five votes Among the members of the Constitutional Court, its president, María Luisa Brahm, exercised her power to decide and accepted the appeal of President Piñera who asked to declare unconstitutional the reform promoted by opposition deputies for the second retirement of pension savings.

The decision generated Immediate criticism in the center-left, where they rejected the substance of the opinion and also pointed to Brahm’s link with the President: the president of TC was appointed to his position by Piñera and was the head of his team of advisers during his first government.

• “A situation is provoked very conflictive, which makes any constitutional modification depend on the signature of a President of the Republic who is with a 7% approval, “said Deputy DC Matías Walker, regretting that the power of Congress to reform the fundamental charter was not recognized.

The government celebrated the ruling, Above all because it would operate as a precedent to stop a third withdrawal of funds promoted by Pamela Jiles and also to bring down another ten initiatives that are being processed in Parliament and that, according to the Executive, are also unconstitutional, such as the tax on supermarkets. rich and the extension for the payment of commercial patents.

The Palace spokesman, Jaime Bellolio, called on the parliamentarians to accept the TC resolution and to “stop” the “constitutional trap” with which they were operating to carry out different projects.

We invite you to review an article with the arguments of the TC ministers and the debate that took place in Congress and among constitutional lawyers. Read more of this story.

The Ministry of Health reported that the Metropolitan Region will remain, for at least two more weeks, in the transition phase, which implies quarantines on holidays and weekends.

Faced with the increase in infections, the authorities also decided to advance the start of the curfew to 10 pm, a measure that will take effect on December 26.

• For Christmas and New Years, However, it was resolved to make some restrictions more flexible: the curfew will begin at 2 a.m. on December 25 and January 1, and on those days transfers within the region for family gatherings will also be allowed, despite be holidays.

Epidemiologist and Member of the Covid-19 Advisory Council, María Teresa Valenzuela, explained that keeping everyone in Phase 2 when there are communes that should have been quarantined corresponds to a “measure of humanity”. “I think the meaning of these holidays, of the family, was put on the balance,” he added.

In today’s issue of La Tercera you will be able to review in detail the measures arranged for the end of the year celebrations, such as hours and allowed capacity. Read more of this story.

The mutation of the virus detected in the United Kingdom impacted the performance of the main stock markets in Europe and, to a lesser extent, Wall Street indicators.

In numbers: the Milan, Paris and Frankfurt stock exchanges registered declines of more than 2 percentage points, while in the United States the Nasdaq lost 0.1% and the Dow Jones managed to reverse its fall at the end of the session to close with a slight rise of 0, 12%.

• “Will be an error increase panic (…) the important thing is that there is a vaccine, “said Alberto Bernal, strategy chief at XP Securities.

What happened in Chile: The Selective Stock Index coupled with the global trend and fell 1.13%, while the dollar –after soaring $ 10– closed with an increase of $ 2.8 to $ 728.95 and the price of copper fell by 1.58 % at US $ 3.55 a pound.

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