translated from Spanish: Official and opposition senators ensured that their votes “will not be available” to postpone elections

Through a statement 19 senators from ophicilism and the opposition signed a letter ingesting that “they will not be available” to postpone the elections of regional governors set for April 2021.Lawmakers stated that “senators below signatories reiterate once again that our votes will not be available to postpone the election of regional governors, which in accordance with current laws and regulations will be made in April 2021″The letter was signed by the senators of the ” Regionalist Banking”, Adriana Muñoz (PPD), Ximena Rincón (DC), Carolina Goic (DC), Isabel Allende (PS), Ximena Orders (PPD), Marcela Sabat (RN), Jorge Pizarro (DC), Ricardo Lagos Weber (PPD), José Miguel Insulza (PS), Jorge Soria (PPD), Francisco Hue Juan Castro (RN), Juan Ignacio Latorre (RD), Alfonso De Urresti (PS), Manuel José Ossandón (pro RN), David Sandoval (UDI), Francisco Chahuán (RN), Felipe Harboe (PPD) and Alejandro Guillier (IND.). It should be mentioned that they explained that on 7 August “several of the senators of the Regionalist Bank held a meeting with the Comptroller General of the Republic, Jorge Bermúdez, who detailed to us the varying degrees of progress of the administrative measures regulated by Law 21.074, and in particular the seven Regulations that this legal rule envisages, since its publication 30 months ago”. , noted that there is a “willingness of collaboration manifested with concrete proposals at the Technical Bureau convened by the Government whose results were delivered in October 2019, and in bills presented at The Congress, together with countless meetings and formal proposals that we have given to the various interior and finance ministers of this administration, to advance the implementation of the new regional institutionality , in the transfer of competences and in a regional income law”Also, ensured that there is a “total willingness to dispatch all laws that need to be passed in favor of the ongoing regionalization and decentralization process. And we encourage President Piñera’s government to introduce and process the unfortunately pending regulations and laws as soon as possible.” We are convinced that the process of empowering regional governments must already trigger it. It is not possible to re-postpone the decentralizing process, which will do the country good, and if there is a real will to move forward, the Government that has exclusivity in most of the issues contemplated by Law 21.074, will have our support to improve and supplement legislatively the longing that the regions of the country demand of us,” they closed in the communiqué.

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