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Government talks continue to prevent the second 10% withdrawal bill from advancing in the Senate.
Already yesterday the Minister of Finance, Ignacio Briones, recognized the negotiations that the Executive was leading with the opposition and the ruling party to seek an understanding that would allow combining the withdrawal of 10%, with the pension reform that is in the Labor Commission.
And within this framework is that this day the government spokesman minister, Jaime Bellolio, acknowledged negotiations to see the possibility that the Executive present its own proposal to withdraw 10% of pension funds.
“The first withdrawal meant, in a different context of the country, that two million people were left without pension funds. If that happens again, it means that another two million people will be left without pension funds. In other words, almost half of those people who had pension funds will have nothing. And that makes it very difficult to later reach a deep agreement on improving pensions for our elderly, “said the minister.
Bellolio assured that “we hope that an agreement can be reached in the next few days. And one of the things that is being discussed, senators from Chile asked yesterday, is that the government itself can present a project, for example, of a 10% withdrawal that is more limited, that does include a tax on those people high income ”.
Regarding the last point, the spokesperson stated that “it does not seem reasonable that all Chileans have to pay people with higher incomes a subsidy, that they also take out those pension funds, when today we have fundamental emergencies in the most vulnerable people. So the The focus will be on that, on the help that is necessary for the most vulnerable people, on recovering jobs and on getting out of the pandemic well.
Bellolio insisted that the possibility of presenting its own 10% withdrawal project “is something that the government is evaluating, talking with senators from Chile Vamos, as well as with opposition senators.”
But likewise, he also stressed the importance of moving forward with the pension reform. One of the edges that are also within the government’s negotiations with the opposition and the ruling party.
“We are also interested in reaching an agreement on pensions. We have been waiting for a long time to improve the pension system (…) If the reform were approved today as it is, it would improve the pensions of 800,000 middle-class people and particularly women, who are the ones who have been most affected by the pension system. pensions that we have today. We want to move there and for that we need unity, “he said.
Bellolio closed with that “we are interested in respecting the rules of the game and not making more constitutional circumvention as has unfortunately been a common practice through, above all, the Chamber of Deputies.”
