translated from Spanish: ‘Jacket return’: ps criticize PS by vote for pension reform

The votes of DC Gabriel Silber and PS Gastón Saavedra were key to the approval in the Lower House Labour Committee of the Government’s indication on the public authority that will administer the 4% pre-quote additional vision in the framework of pension reform.
But it was the PS vote that concentrated all the criticism from the opposition. For Gael Yeomans, the chair of the instance, what happened “is from a jacket lap that I find inexplicable and also disappointing.” “You trust what you say to yourself and to the public. Yesterday we had the indications and they spoke about them and they said they were going to vote against it because of the content they had and today they are denounced and voted in favor,” said the president of Social Convergence.
For his part, the deputy and president of the Regionalist Social Green Federation, Jaime Mulet, the vote of Saavedra represents that “the Socialist Party succumbed to the siren songs” of the Minister of Labor Nicolás Monckeberg and President Sebastián Piñera.
“It was certainly surprising this turn by the Socialist Party in joining the understanding of Christian Democracy with the right. The truth was difficult to foresee because the signals given by the PS, as the DC gave at the time, was that they did not agree with the right-wing government on these matters. So today you come to this understanding is a situation that takes us by surprise because we understood that at least the Socialist MPs were going to maintain the progressive stance,” he said.
Mulet also gave a reconnaissance to the women members of the council, all of whom were opposition members and members of the committee, who voted against it. “It is curious that the four women parliamentarians who make up the commission, Alejandra Sepúlveda (FRVS), Karol Cariola (PC), Gael Yeomans (CS) and Maite Orsini (RD) were the ones who held up and held their positions, it does Parliament good to have women and many more are missing, I think they are showing a show of consequence and courage,” she said.
However, Mr Saavedra justified his vote, noting that “one can reach agreements and understand that he is legislating to generate a new pension system which we have to refine in time, that we have to open the doors for that. No one here has flipped or anything like that, it’s just about building a new mixed-character system where the savings are and where solidarity is and where public funding is.”
“There’s the shadow of AFPs”
Yeomans also questioned the indication creates the Social Insurance Management Board (CASS), which in addition to the administration of the additional 4%, will also be responsible for The Dependency Insurance, the Child and Child Accompaniment Insurance (Sanna Act) and others social insurance programs.
In its view, this does not clear that AFPs are left out of the question. “Unfortunately we see the AFPs behind the veil of insurance companies managing this additional 4%. There is the shadow of AFPs, there are the owners of AFPs behind these insurance companies and it is unfortunate that citizens are also being deceived because it is said that in that additional 4% there will be no interest of AFPs and yet they are” Indicated.
According to Yeomans, “there is a highly skewed situation on the part of the Government where it does not incorporate the different visions either. It makes an onboarding appearance, but ultimately that’s not the case. It’s just a media show.”
One of the outstanding issues in her view is on the Solidarity Pillar, but “I do not see any greater dialogue, and I do not see that this has been conveyed in the content of the indications,” the front-profile Parliamentarian concluded.

Original source in Spanish