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This day the Senate approved the report of the Mixed Commission regarding the constitutional reform project that establishes the reduction of the parliamentary diet and other authorities by 36 votes in favor.
This was the last procedure that the initiative should circumvent, which was ready to become a Law of the Republic.
The debate in the Senate room was marked by the Library of Congress report released today Third, in which they indicated that the diet of Chilean parliamentarians was the highest in the OECD countries and was equivalent to 38 minimum wages.
This document was criticized by the senators, accusing that it contained false data and errors. For this reason, the corporation’s table, led by Adriana Muñoz, called an extraordinary committee meeting to discuss the issue.
But the processing of the project during its passage through Congress was not easy and was marked by various controversies. One of them was the proposal of the Deputies of the Broad Front, Gabriel Boric (CS) and Giorgio Jackson (RD), that he was looking for a temporary reduction of 50% of the diet while an external body defined the new remuneration.
This point was rejected by the Senate in its second procedure; the same happened in the Mixed Commission, where it was finally established that it will be the Public Senior Management Council (CADP) the one that will define -under technical criteria- the percentage of the temporary reduction within 30 days for parliamentarians and ministers; while in the cases of the President of the Republic, seremis, mayors, regional governors and personnel hired at honorary fees that are trustworthy, it will be 90.
But, in addition, the project establishes that every four years an organism made up of a former Minister of the Treasury, a former counselor of the Central Bank, a former controller or subcontractor, a former president of one of the branches that make up the National Congress and a former National Director of the Civil Service will define – under technical criteria – the remuneration of parliamentarians (without considering assignments), which may not exceed in any case that of the Head of State, the amount of which amounts approximately to $ 6.5 million liquid.
Also the initiative leaves out of this salary adjustment the members of the Judiciary, the Public Ministry and mayors and councilors.
For today, moreover, the Senate was expected to see the project that limits parliamentary reelection, but by committee agreement it was decided to leave it for next week.
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