translated from Spanish: Senator Ossandón announced that he will vote for withdrawal of funds from the AFPs: “Time is up to be late for everything”

Senator Manuel José Ossandón (RN) confirmed during this day and through a public statement, which will be added to the support of the withdrawal of funds from the AFPs. Thus, with the vote in favor of four official legislators, a number that would allow the passage of reform in the upper house. In the statement, the parliamentarian explained his reasons, commenting that he is still in recovery for coronavirus.” Even though I am still recovering from Covid-19, keeping the proper rest indicated by doctors, I have been obliged to seek this form of communication with you, who are the ones who suffer the daily rigors of this pandemic,” he began. Ossandón, assured that the emergency “has stripped away the marginalization, poverty, debts that afflict most of you, from which the disappointment of which many political institutions are accused of.” And in this tone, he asked that “the time is up to be late for everything and to point the finger and try to traitors to whom we have been consistent and we are convinced that Chile changed, that on October 18 it was not the communists but the people who went out on the street to express their anxieties and problems that many hidden in the macroeconomic figures did not want to see” Added. Ossandón, made a number of arguments, concluding that “that is why, I firmly believe that the state should help people directly. However, that has not happened and that is why we have to hold on to what is possible today.” Moving forward in his words, the legislator retorted that his “conviction is that the airs of rebellion blowing in the world and in Chile respond to people getting tired of waiting.” On his vote, he said, “it’s the best thing today for that real Chile that many don’t want to see. (…) Today it is not the priority to defend any personal or group interest in particular: it is time for people, families. For this reason, my vote with full conviction in the Senate will be in favor of the withdrawal of 10%,” he said.

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