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Like a bucket of cold water, the Minister of Finance, Ignacio Briones, received the position that several deputies and senators set last weekend regarding the Executive’s proposal to close some programs for the 2021 Budget.
This, because several legislators, among them Daniel Núñez (PC), Giorgio Jackson (RD) and Carlos Montes (PS) consigned to Pulse their concern that the State ends up eliminating jobs, and they questioned the government for giving contradictory signals in favor and against employment.
In conversation with radio Duna, the head of Public Finance, in addition to expressing feeling surprised by “having read in the press parliamentarians who oppose any change per se,” said that that, “is exactly what the word prejudice defines, in circumstances, in which what should animate the budget debate is the argumentation and the evidence ”.
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Briones regretted “so much statement, without knowing the budget and without having reviewed the work” and It appeared that the questions made by deputies Jackson and Núñez, “slide something like that the State has to be an employment agency, and that is exactly what the State should not do.”
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He continued explaining that the idea of all this is to spend resources well and focus those monies on well-thought-out objectives, therefore, he insisted that “it is time to put a little more rationality and argumentation in this debate and not as suggested by the Núñez deputies. or Jackson, that this necessarily implies the dismissal of public officials ”.
In any case, and In addition to the prejudice that Briones says weighs on some political actors, the important thing now is “to get out of our heads that the State is an employment agency”, because in his opinion, what must be done is to focus everything according to the citizens.
Briones’ statements are framed in a context of high political complexity, given that the government only has a couple of weeks left to be able to settle the 2021 Budget and so far it has not been able to reach an agreement with opposition parliamentarians. To this would be added another open flank: the discussion of the minimum wage.
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