translated from Spanish: In last minute play, the government opens to changes to save its pension reform

In the “D Day” for the project of pension reform, which D Uran this morning is ditched in the House of Deputies, the government opened to last-minute changes to be able to save its initiative that would vote around 13:30 hours.
The project arrived in the room with the rejection of the Committee of Work of the Chamber, where the key vote was of the deputy DC Raúl Soto, president of the instance, who was dissatisfied with the replies delivered up to that time by the executive. To put more pressure on the executive, The Christian Democracy (DC), whose support is key to get the support of this initiative, gave to the government this morning a document with a number of conditions to accede to vote the idea of legislating. “Our situation is very willing to reach agreements, but now we say again ‘ Look, we need you to move forward in these matters, ‘” said DC head of bank Gabriel Ascencio.
The opposition pressure paid off, because finally the executive agreed to enter some changes in a sometimes tense session, where the No + AFP posters were installed in the seats of the opposition parliamentarians and there was a strong presence of delegations of Workers in the tribunes of the hall.
In his speech, the Minister of Finance, Felipe Larraín, reported the creation of a “new and inclusive public entity” that will take care of the additional 4% that proposes the reform of the executive, opening up to one of the opposing demands. “The Radical party made a series of approaches, we value disposition to dialogue, the DC has made proposals to improve, we value it,” he said.
The Minister of Labour, Nicolás Monckeberg, who has also deployed with independent deputies to get their votes, said on his part that of the 10 minimum floor proposals raised by the opposition benches, have collected six.
“We have given sufficient evidence and we are willing to continue to arming, we are ready to dialogue, persuade and be persuaded, concrete facts, our project that entered the Congress collects 14 measures of the project of the second government of Michelle Bachelet” Said.
The DC conditions
The Falangist document fixes as the first condition, according to Ascencio, that “we do not want to approve any rule that effectively consolidates or improves the position that the AFP has today. We don’t want to work on a standard that improves that. ”
Another DC condition is that “there is going to be a public entity, a new public entity that administers the 4% that you put in the government, where they have no participation the AFP.”
A third point is that “the mechanism to improve the pensions of the middle class is now established,” said the head of bank DC.
The DC also seeks to advance the entry into force of benefits for the beneficiaries of the solidarity pillar from January 2020, and not wait 7 months from the date of enactment of the law.

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