The Interior Minister, Rodrigo Delgado, insisted on his defense to the idea of bringing before the Constitutional Court (TC) the project of the third withdrawal of 10%. And he argued that “no one on the political committee disagreed with sending the request to the TC.”
In conversation with CNN Chile, the minister noted that “indeed we as a government had the thesis that this was an attribution of the Executive, in this case the president, when we are talking about planned issues, as well as had been done in the second withdrawal, not so in the first because there were other circumstances.”
Delgado recounted that there were conversations about how to deal with something that was popular in citizenship. And he assured that the thousands of families who did not qualify for any state aid or benefit were not left out. “When we talk about being an insensitive government here, we always said it, 10% is very important to a lot of people, but it leaves aside people who don’t have the resources to enjoy it,” he said.
“It’s not that people have not been talked about before, those 3 million people have, most likely almost 100%, received other benefits and added these 200,000 non-exclusive pesos,” Delgado added.
The interior minister was firm that financial aid “has been constant over time.” “Someone will be able to argue that it has been a lot or little, but no one can argue that the government from the outing point, and this also in addition to health measures such as vaccines, beds, fans, is also part of the sensitivity,” he said.
“We cannot polarize that there is a government that has not cared about anything when there is a health concern, with transfers,” he concluded.
