translated from Spanish: Ossandón admits the tax reform kitchen isn’t working: “The votes aren’t there”

As it stands, little faith has Senator Of National Renewal Manuel José Ossandón to the tax reform that drives the government of Sebastián Piñera. “It doesn’t happen in the Senate, ” he noted.
But despite the prognosis, the former presidential candidate believes the proposal the Executive’s signature is the best.
In conversation with the Channel 13 program “Central Table”, Ossandón noted that the project, as presented by the Government, seems to him “the best alternative”. “I find it good, but if you can’t, because the opposition doesn’t want to, you have to start looking long-term,” he said.
The legislator pointed to the debate generated around tax reintegration, the “heart” of the Executive’s initiative, after interior minister Andrew Chadwick stated that “you never have to transform the instruments into dogmas”, even if it later came out to clarify that this point is fundamental.
“I am closer and closer to Chadwick. The first thing is that we have to give certainties and show people that we are going to remove any barriers to investment, that’s important. Second, telling people in the face that politics is the art of governing and the art of the possible,” Ossandón said.
“I want to tell you that I’ve been working on the issue, talking quietly with everyone and this reform as it is doesn’t happen in the Senate, it doesn’t happen, there are no votes, and there are the votes, because it has been done wrong,” he added.
According to the legislator, “Minister Larraín, whom I hold dear and a friend of mine, made a mistake with the President of the Republic that it is to leave this government by giving hard to former President Bachelet and the New Majority and blaming him for all economics (…) of course, they’re passing the bill, they started to unite and unite in front of an enemy and that enemy is to drop this.”
In the same vein, Manuel José stated that he would have separated him by political realism, “it is not a dogma reintegration and second, nor is it the heart of a reform”, adding that Larraín “is wrong, the heart is to raise more money and that there is more investment in Chile”.
“What to do here: Asking the opposition, asking Minister Larraín to open a table for a republican spirit,” was his recommendation.

Original source in Spanish