By This Tuesday, the Senate Finance and Labor Committees voted on the government’s draft that allows for the extraordinary withdrawal of pension funds.
While the project that has immediate discussion was expected to be settled today, the appointment was extended and the chairman of the Finance Committee Jorge Pizarro (DC) reported that a general voting committee session was quoted by morning from 08:30 to 09:30.
Given the urgency of the initiative, the agreement is to vote in Wednesday’s room session, firstly the draft second withdrawal submitted by opposition MPs – and which the Government took to the TC in a last-minute strategy – and then the Executive’s draft.
In today’s debate, the differences between opposition and officialism around this project of the Executive remained evident. While opposition senators – such as socialist Carlos Montes – announced their vote against it, from officialism they folded to the government’s arguments.
According to the head of senators’ bench RN Rodrigo Galilea, “for 96% of Chileans, the project has no requirements”, alluding that only the highest incomes will be excluded from retirement.
The Government’s project has been accused by the opposition of having “small letter”, for limiting the universe of beneficiaries, for reducing the cap on money to be withdrawn and for payment in two installments, rather than the 15 days approved in the opposition-led motion.
