translated from Spanish: Minister Briones took a “positive” balance after appeal in the Chamber of Deputies

The Minister of Finance, Ignacio Briones, took a positive look of the appeal that took place on Thursday in the Chamber of Deputies.” The balance is positive, I have always said that it is an opportunity to speak to the citizens and I see it as that. It was a super respectful tone and I thank the deputy (Jaime) Mulet. It was good,” said the secretary of state.He also referred to the minimum wage, saying that in our own country this has been rising over time, “it remains at a level of course unsatisfactory that one would like to increase, but one must take charge of the reality that one is Chile and not Sweden,” he emphasized. He also estimated that “we are in a minute when employment is under threat, that is the main concern we have as a government (…) the truth is that the example I have given is that if you skip 20 villages relative to the minimum wage and we want to raise it from 301,000 pesos to 500 thousand pesos, I ask people who have a small venture will have the ability to hire that person? Many probably don’t, and what’s going to happen is that person is left without income, and out of employment.” More than talking about minimum wages or that are unrealistic is going for the minimum income, which is supplementing income, which in the end is what comes to people, who need it most,” he stressed.

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