The idea of withdrawing the early withdrawal of funds from the AFPs has its spirits within Chile Vamos. The official coalition has seen its own parliamentarians support a project that the government has described as “bad public policy” and which, as the finance minister said this morning, will have high costs for the tax office. Officialism is in crisis and two of its helms, Mario Desbordes (RN) and Jacqueline van Rysselberghe (UDI), have more than divided opinions on the initiative.
UDI President and Senator Jacqueline Van Rysselberghe referred to the bill that allows up to 10% of the planned funds to be voted on on Monday on the Senate Constitution Committee. The helmsman was resigned from the support provided by deputies from his shop, who were sent to the party’s Supreme Court after voting in favour. Van Rysselberghe argued that, in his view, he is falling into a “de facto parliamentism” and assured that the government “should” veto the project.
In an interview with the Central Bureau channel 13 program, the parliamentarian said that in her party they are convinced that the project is “bad” and explained that the decision to pass UDI deputies to the Supreme Court was due to the fact that the path used is a “remnant to be able to lower constitutional quorums” and that, for Senator Van Rysselberghe , from a gremialist perspective, “it is populism and it threatens democracy.”
“The government should use it (the veto). If it does not, it is to accept – beyond the underlying theme – the trinket or the crack,” said Van Rysselberghe, who recommends “helping the middle class with state silver and not worker savings.”
As stated, Senator Van Rysselberghe said she did not understand the support of Chilean deputies Let’s go to the project. “We don’t understand very well – if there is a much better real alternative (presented by the government) – why the startking.”
“The answer we give is that this is more due to an ideological issue,” said UDI President Jacqueline Van Rysselberghe.
After Senator Manuel José Ossandón announced that he will vote in favor of the project proposing the withdrawal of up to 10% of the planned funds, the President of National Renewal, Mario Desbordes, said that he respects the options of the parliamentarians and that they “are making use of their right to vote, of what they think is better”.
“The Government did not convince them, and I too hope that the proposal will improve,” said Desbordes in conversation with Emol. The President of National Renewal (RN) said the government’s mistake was to turn this into some life and death. “They have to be proposals that people understand at first reading, not go through 5 or 6 explanations,” he said.
It should be mentioned that Mario Desbordes abstained in the vote of the Chamber of Deputies because, as he told the electronic medium, he believes that it is “a bad project” and that opening the debate of the withdrawal of funds as a last option “is something that transgresses us no principle”. In that regard, he reiterated that his deputies who voted in favour will not pass to the Supreme Court. “I don’t see where the RN Supreme Court can sanction MPs for voting in favor. This is not a topic of principles in RN. I don’t think anyone’s going to think of passing them on to the TS,” he explained.
It should be remembered that the AFP withdrawal initiative was approved last Wednesday in the Chamber of Deputies with 13 votes of Chile Vamos, which further strained the crisis within officialism. Now, the bill is expected to be discussed in the Senate.
