translated from Spanish: “Common Minimums”: Opposition develops another intense day of meetings to finalize counter-proposal to be delivered tomorrow to La Moneda

While the opposition was expected to submit its proposal for “common minimums” to La Moneda on Tuesday, finally the delivery of the document would be made by Wednesday, within the framework of the treaties carried out by the Government and Congress.
The opposition first came together at a lunch meeting with the participation of all senators plus the bench chiefs of the Chamber of Deputies, to fine-tune the latest details of the proposal. Then it was the turn of a meeting with social organizations, as was done on Saturday in the tonic to broadn the measures presented, and finely the document was subjected to the review of legal advisors for the final touches.
Following the meeting of the parliamentarians, the PPD’s head of bench, Raúl Soto, commented that “the opposition is going to be blunt,” and is basically based on a universal income that will be calculated on the basis of the poverty line, recharged by 30%.
Thus, the second vice-president of the Chamber Rodrigo González reported that “in a very long meeting the opposition defined the amounts of emergency income that will require the Government to solve the needs of families today. This amount will surpass what is called today the poverty line and will reach in a one-person family above 230,000 pesos and in a family of 4 people a little above 600,000 pesos. It is a very important figure and the Government must respond to this demand,” he said.
According to the PPD’s head of bench, Universal Emergency Income goes beyond the poverty line, “because the cost of living has increased in pandemic, because the price of basic basket elements has also increased, so a line of sufficiency must be considered to deliver dignity to Chilean families during the months of crisis.”
The proposal also considers “a strong savings and economic support plan for SMEs of $3 billion through direct subsidies. And thirdly, a health strengthening plan through an injection of resources for municipalized primary health, to particularly strengthen traceability in order to overcome the pandemic,” Soto said.
With regard to financing, where there were some differences in the sector, the draft text that it passed during the day argues that for measures involving implementing resources under the current Budget Law, “higher tax collection from better projections of the higher price of copper from both private mining and Codelco” is proposed. And for longer-term proposals, the opposition proposal proposes measures “for the urgent reduction of evasion and circumvention”, such as effective IIS access to banking information and improving the General Anti-Avoidance Rule, among other reforms.
According to Ms Natalia Castillo (New Deal), “one of the financing mechanisms has to do with copper surpluses, as well as the possibility of liquidating sovereign wealth funds, and there is also the borrowing mechanism that is available today to increase state resources.”
The MP added that “in addition to that, proposals are included from a health perspective, on the vaccination process, and also to address the food emergency that is now in some sectors of the population where some alerts of pockets of malnutrition have already been raised.”
As for the deadlines to come, Senate Vice President Jorge Pizarro (DC) said he hopes the Executive “can send the bills to which he soon committed.”
“I wish on Monday we could be working on the House and Senate committees to dispatch the establishment of a universal basic income as soon as possible,” the legislator added, according to Radio Cooperativa.
As stated by Ms Castillo, “we hope that these proposals, as well as the other proposals being put forward in terms of mental health, will be collected by the government. Now the ball’s on your court. We will wait for the projects to arrive in Congress and we will deal with them with great concern, a lot of dedication, waiting for the various aids to Chilean families to arrive as soon as possible.”

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