translated from Spanish: President of Conapyme called for “urgent measures to prevent the bankruptcy of thousands of SMEs”

The passage of the bill that delivers a bonus to the middle class was valued in different sectors and one of them was from the National Council of Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises of Chile (Conapyme). Its president, Héctor Sandoval, valued the improvements that emerged in the processing, but called for the urgency that SMEs require to prevent the bankruptcy of these companies.
“The Conapyme welcomes the adoption of the bill granting a middle-class bond, an initiative that was improved in Parliament by adding up to retirees and above all that the percentage of IFE beneficiaries is 60 to 80% of the most vulnerable sectors,” Sandoval said.
He emphasized that the improvements are good “3 branches of the Conapyme is included as the transport where a 500 thousand pesos bonus was achieved and that the Ife discount is contingent on a commitment by the Executive to include it in a gloss in the project to readjust the minimum wage”.
In turn, he reiterated that “Conapyme has been insistently raising a universal subsidy of 500 thousand pesos for 3 months and this law is far from universal and SMEs were left out.”
“If this is a middle-class subsidy, do we wonder what SMEs are?  We are clear that if there is one sector representing the middle class it is just SMEs and here they are not considered,” he said.
Following this line, he commented that “only an agreement was reached to form a working table that evacuees a report or proposal over the course of 45 days. We’re worried about how this commission is going to end. We don’t have good experiences. There is the SME table created by Law 21.256 and we have participated in dozens of meetings and we have achieved absolutely nothing.”
He also said that “Finance Minister Rodrigo Cerda raised that there are $200 million for SMEs. We understand that Economía had a similar amount in its budget, but if this mid-class bond cost $6 billion, we believe that solving the problem and crisis facing 2 million SMEs, through a $400 million fund, is really inexplicable.”
“The government has to take the situation of SMEs seriously”
According to the president of the Conapyme “the government has to take this issue seriously. SMEs are the owners and their workers who have not produced for a year. They have had to continue to pay their leases and patents, their fixed expenses and even paying the planned contributions of workers who took out the guarantee insurance (AFC) and payments that many have had to interrupt because of the lack of funds.”
“SMEs,” he said, “are going bankrupt by hundreds and thousands every day and a decision must be made here as soon as possible because the situation is very complicated. We saw what happened in Osorno, in Puerto Montt. We have already seen what happened in Punta Arenas, where the whole community organized to protest what they are living, We understand that Valparaiso is in the same condition and intends to meet the city, the living forces and the different economic activities to manifest its discomfort.”

Original source in Spanish

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