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23:02 –
| The Minister of Labor defends the Government’s project: “A person who has an income between 700,000 and a million and a half will have to pay a small rate of 2%, and so on, until reaching people who have quite high incomes for reality Well, the bill that comes from the Chamber of Deputies exempts people with higher incomes from paying taxes. “
23:01 –
| Minister of Labor, María José Zaldívar, defends the Government’s project: “The resources that have been saved by the workers have never paid taxes. If I withdraw those funds, I would pay taxes.”
21:24 –
| Because the discussion took place in the middle of the 2021 Budget, the Senate decided to end the debate on the reform for the second 10% withdrawal and continue tomorrow from 10:00 a.m.
19:26 –
| Senator Carlos Bianchi (Ind.): “People want dignity and are forced to use their own resources unfortunately because the Government has not been able to arrive on time” #CooperativaEnCasa
19:24 –
| Senator José Miguel Insulza (PS) supports the second withdrawal of 10%: The Government’s appeal to the TC “does not scare us and we are going to vote in favor” #CooperativaEnCasa
19:18 –
| “Tonight I will remain in vigil until the 10% is approved,” said Senator Iván Moreira (UDI), who announced that he will approve the Government’s project and will abstain from the #CooperativaEnCasa deputies
Senator of the UDI, Ivan Moreira, declares% u201Cen vigil% u201D in the Congress building until tomorrow the government project for the withdrawal of pension funds is approved in the room.@Cooperative
– Jorge Espinoza Cuellar (@espinozacuellar) November 25, 2020
19:16 –
| Senator Juan Ignacio Latorre (RD) “We warned that a second withdrawal was coming because the crisis continues and the measures have been insufficient.” In addition “there is a legitimacy crisis because many people prefer to have their money and not in these companies that are more of a capital market.”
19:15 –
| Senator Carmen Gloria Aravena (Ind., Ex Evópoli): “Unfortunately there are thousands of microentrepreneurs and independent people who do not contribute, and this reform is not going to help them.” Furthermore, “there are legitimate doubts of constitutionality about this project.”
19:15 –
| Senator Ximena Rincón (DC) stated that “in the absence of a public policy it is impossible not to think about approving this draft constitutional reform.” “When you think about how long the pandemic has lasted and what this withdrawal means, one cannot help but think that it is a desperate measure.”
19:15 –
| Senator Yasna Provoste (DC): “The approval of the first AFP withdrawal showed maturity and citizen responsibility, not only the solidarity and sobriety of the people who used their resources to pay debts. That is why I vote in favor of this second draft”.
19:15 –
| Senator Jaime Quintana (PPD): “It is not a day to celebrate. We are voting on a bad public policy that was made for various reasons: the Government has not taken over the idea that it was the workers themselves who faced the crisis with their own resources of unemployment insurance “.
19:14 –
| Ebensperger (UDI): “The Government has created a protection system where 3 out of 5 Chileans have received support. Without a doubt, it is not enough but efforts have been made.”
19:14 –
| Senator Luz Ebensperger (UDI) acknowledged that “it has not been easy for anyone to face this pandemic and social crisis, the worst in 40 years.”
19:13 –
| Alejandro Guillier (Ind.): “I am going to vote in favor of 10% without taxes and without any conditions, because they are savings for workers in Chile.”
19:13 –
| Senator Alejandro Guillier (Ind.) Stated that “when aid is planned, it does not reach the middle sectors that have had to resort to their own savings.” Likewise, he rejected the Executive’s project because “it taxes the income of workers.”
19:12 –
| Senator Rabindranath Quinteros (PS) pointed out that “the priority must be in helping people, that is why we have insisted on a universal basic income, but the government has insisted on bonds with less and less coverage.”
19:12 –
| Senator Isabel Allende (PS) affirmed that “if we are discussing this regulation it is because there has not been the possibility of a timely social policy of the government that serves and reaches thousands of families.”
19:10 –
| The project, presented by a group of deputies, will be voted on this Wednesday in its eventual last legislative process.
19:08 –
| In ordinary session this Wednesday, the Senate Chamber is debating the constitutional reform, promoted by the opposition, which establishes the second AFP withdrawal.
16:21 –
| The article of the Government project that imposes the reimbursement of withdrawn amounts – the so-called “self-loan” – was rejected by five votes to four #CooperativaEnCasa
16:11 –
| Article 6 – on repayment or the so-called “self-loan” – is the only one that disorganizes the commission; The opposition anticipates that it will reject it
15:59 –
| The Government adopted the indications proposed by Senators UDI Durana and Sandoval, but with modifications to the withdrawal period in two installments, from 10 to 15 business days between each.
19:29 –
| Constitutional lawyer Javier Couso: That a constitutional reform is unconstitutional is a thesis that in Chile has not been tried before
19:29 –
| Constitutional lawyer Javier Couso: I see it very difficult for the second withdrawal to be declared unconstitutional
19:20 –
| Constitutional lawyer Javier Couso: The declaration of unconstitutionality of the second withdrawal is well written in its form, but it is contradictory
16:09 –
| While, Juan Castro (RN), confirmed that he will vote in favor of the two projects. “Two projects of the same line in the same vote, If you ask me, I will vote the two projects favorably Would you like itesolve the Constitutional Court“.
16:05 –
| In the instance, the deputy Eduardo Duran pointed out that “the strategy of going to the Constitutional Court is a bad idea and presenting a second retirement project in fine print, can be interpreted as a frontal attack on those who have lost everything in this pandemic”
16:05 –
| The Finance and Labor Commissions of the Senate Chamber began to analyze the Government’s project that seeks to allow a second withdrawal of 10% of pension funds through a self-loan mechanism.
