On Tuesday, the draft proposing a second withdrawal of 10% of AFPs will be voted on in the Chamber of Deputies, an initiative proposed by opposition parliamentarians and supported even by some of the officialism. The main detractor of the measure – again – is the Government which, in the words of its spokesman, will bet on the indications made by Chilean parliamentarians Vamos to prevent “4 million people from being left without funds”.
After a meeting with Piñera and the political committee in Cerro Castillo, Jaime Bellolio, minister spokesman of government, stated that “in all parts of the world pension funds require forced savings, and it is incompatible that there are people who are 0, and at the same time we all want to have a very good pension system that gives us decent pensions in the future”.
Bellolio reiterated La Moneda’s refusal and claimed to be in talks with Chilean parliamentarians Vamos who propose conditions for withdrawal. “Several of those indications that have been presented, we think are appropriate, and let’s see how the debate is going to take place this week,” the minister added.
The secretary of state took the opportunity to promote pension reform and criticized the Senate that it “has been discussing this reform for more than 9 months.” Bellolio stressed that it had already been approved in the Chamber of Deputies and therefore hopes that the sooner we “can do it”.
The spokesman concluded that it is “a little incompatible for us to have 4 million people, if this were approved and everyone took out their funds, with nothing in pension funds, while wanting to make a system that gives us old-age pensions.”
One of Chile’s proposals Is to authorize the spin of funds only for unemployed people or who can prove a decline of at least 30 percent of their income, preventing it from being universal. Parliamentarians of Chile Vamos announced that in the debate next Tuesday they will once again insist, together with the Government, on these amendments which, moreover, were discarded by the Constitution Committee.
While on the other hand there are those who say that you have to give freedom “without small print”. “I hope that on Tuesday there will be cross-cutting support from all political sectors. The second withdrawal people urgently need it, it’s their money and we MPs can’t be saying who can withdraw and who can’t,” said MP RN Jorge Durán.
“We have to give freedom without small print, without obstacle for this second retreat to reach the families that need it most,” the official legislator added.
The Chamber of Members and Deputies will vote in the Chamber next Tuesday on the reform that allows the second withdrawal and in the session 93 votes will be needed in favour of the initiative reaching its second procedure.
