translated from Spanish: The label PUC and Larroulet in the INE Advisory board

The National Statistics Institute has a clear problem with the government. Alleged corruption and manipulation of data from the consumer Price Index (IPC), are part of what was uncovered in the entity, which urges a process of autonomy, which has not arrived.
In the midst of the scandal, last week the government-trying to tackle the inexplicable-created an advisory council to analyze how to unravel the skein that was generated after recognizing the manipulation of the figures.
The announced team has unleashed a number of comments at the economic and political level. The reason? The excessive “official” profile of the Council and with close proximity to the private sector makes it suspicious that it will have difficulties in achieving the objective of knowing in detail and so to inform it, if market agents paid to manipulate indicator prices, chasing Some benefit.
It is already commented in the financial industry that knowing that some entity of the sector incurred in this practice to increase the value of UF, the “Scandal” would be total.
The advisory board is chaired by Sebastián Claro and composed by David Bravo, Bettina Horst, Andrea Tokman and Claudio Sapelli, professionals linked to the Catholic University and Freedom and development, the latter, the think tank whose key figure for years was Cristián Larroulet, the current influential head of the second floor advisory team.
Despite the clear seal of the members of the Council, the Government has assured full independence of the body.
But, as it leaked, the inconvenience reached other areas of the academy. The dean of the FEN, José de Gregorio, pointed out-in a letter to the Minister of Economy José Ramón Valente-that no effort was made for the transversality of the organism.
Clear stated the weekend to the third that first of all, the Council does not come to elucidate what happened to the IPC, or less to sanction. “This Commission does not come to investigate or sanction what happened in the IPC. Nor to assess the actions that the relevant authorities have taken in the use of their powers. They should be evaluated in another area. I would like to put our task in a positive tone. The risk is that the IPC case will take the INE’s medium-term agenda. No matter how serious the IPC is, it is essential to avoid that it deflects all the attention of the institution, damaging the implementation of multiple initiatives in key areas that may be less attractive, but that determine the strength of the institution in the medium Term and that are integral part of the INE’s strategic initiatives. Our task is to help keep our eyes on the medium term and support the Director in that agenda, “he said.
So the role of the Commission will be to debate before the parliamentary function. This notwithstanding that voices from different sectors had said, and in all the tones, that the organism was crying a reform. Something against which they became deaf ears.
 

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