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The chamber of the Chamber of Deputies approved the presidential veto of the Emergency Family Income project, with abstentions of parliamentarians from the Communist Party, the Broad Front and regionalists, with what now passes to the Senate to complete its legislative office.
The government’s insistence adjusts the beneficiaries, but only repeats the contributions for three months in a decreasing way, from $ 65,000 the first month, $ 55,250 the second and $ 45,500 the third, which is far from the demands of the opposition bloc.
However, and given that the Government notified that this is the last opportunity to make cash, in the end most of the opposing parties chose to give the project the green light.
The Government put pressure to obtain the approval of the veto, to the point that President Sebastián Piñera himself took advantage of a morning press point at Cenabast to call Congress to approve the presidential veto so that the Emergency Family Income “will come soon” 4.5 million Chileans.
Before the vote in the room, the veto was approved in the Chamber’s Finance committee by 11 votes in favor and two abstentions.
The vote was finely 126 in favor and 28 abstentions. These include the independent René Alinco and Karim Bianchi; Gabriel Boric, Gael Yeomans, Diego Ibáñez and Gonzalo Winter from Convergencia Social; RD Jorge Brito, Natalia Castillo, Miguel Crispi, Giorgio Jackson, Maite Orsini and Catalina Pérez; the communists Karol Cariola, Hugo Gutiérrez, Carmen Hertz, Daniel Núñez, Amaro Labra, Guillermo Teillier and Camila Vallejo; the former PS Marcelo Díaz, the ecologist Félix González, the former PH Tomás Hirsch, the regionalists Jaime Mulet, Alejandra Sepúlveda and Esteban Velásquez; in addition to Camila Rojas and Claudia Mix de Comunes.
The Executive’s veto seeks to eliminate the articles that were rejected during the procedure in Parliament. The first is related to eliminating the gradual nature of households with incomes that are exclusively informal. With this, it is achieved that all the households that are within the 60% most vulnerable will receive the same benefit.
The second consideration has to do with adding a third universe of households, those that have at least one adult over 70 or older with a Basic Solidarity Pension, belonging to the 80% most vulnerable in the country.
Although the opposition valued the changes to this initiative, they consider that the amount of US $ 800 million to be used for the Family Emergency Fund is insufficient, considering that US $ 2 billion is available.
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