translated from Spanish: Minister of the Interior after emergency meeting for truckers: “The government will use all the mechanisms offered by the law”

This day the Minister of the Interior, Victor Pérez, cited an emergency meeting to address the rejection of the Government’s proposal to truckers. In this line, this instance began at about 19:00 a.m., led by the Minister of Economy, Lucas Palacios; Energy, Juan Carlos Jobet; Transport, Gloria Hutt; the Minister of Defense, Mario Desbordes; Antonio Walker and the Undersecretary of Public Works.After the meeting the Secretary of State stated that in the afternoon “we were minutes away from reaching an agreement and the last document we were made to arrive had only formal aspects.” We believe that the reason for the truckers’ mobilization was well founded, but we believe that this reason is beginning to be diluted when the road is cut off,” he added. In addition, Pérez emphasized “that we have heard and assumed the claims and therefore there is a document that I believe strengthens the protection of victims. There’s no reason to maintain a mobilization.” We believe it’s not fair that in a pandemic, people don’t have access to remedies. Our commitment is to peace of mind and compliance with the various standards,” he added. In addition, the wallet manager said that “the government will use all the mechanisms offered by the law””The call is to comply with what they offered at the beginning, not to block the road,” he concluded.

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