translated from Spanish: Opposition meets to define final details of a “common minimums” proposal that it will deliver to social organizations and the Government

After 14 hours, the meeting that the opposition will hold will begin to fine-tune details of the text with the final proposal for “common minimums” to be delivered to social organizations and the Government.
Senate President Yasna Provoste leads the instance, which is expected to have the participation of all opposition senators plus the seat chiefs of the Chamber of Deputies.
Once the final text is ready, it will be sent first to the social organizations that have been part of the talks with the representatives of the opposition in Congress, and then to the Government through the ministers of the Segpres and Hacienda, Juan José Ossa and Rodrigo Cerda, respectively.
The draft text, to which T13 had access, details that “as an opposition we have resolved to set aside any political calculations and have once again invited the government to listen, not to the opposition, to listen to Chile, to take on the depth of the crisis, to set aside its over-ideology in which it has founded each and every one of its decisions and to end in a dignified manner the months of government that it has left behind, to set aside its over ideology in which it has founded each and every one of its decisions, and to end in a dignified manner the months of government that it has left , responding to what Chile and its families need and deserve.”
The document proposes four main approaches: Universal Basic Emergency Income; Recovery Plan for MSMes and Deferred Sectors; Strengthening Health Measures; and Sources of Funding for these Emergencies.
On the first point, they say that “it must reach all people who need state support during the pandemic. To this end, initial coverage of 100% of the Social Household Register (6.6 million families) is proposed.” The amount will be calculated around a household adequacy criterion, based on formal measurement instruments, which are considered as the basis for the poverty line, plus other essential family expenses not considered in the estimation of that parameter. And the duration confirms the idea that it should be extended at least until September 2021.
With regard to support for SMEs, the document proposes, inter alia, to establish direct subsidies totaling US$ 3 billion.
For health measures, the opposition proposes the free PCR exam, independent of a person’s health coverage, a transfer of resources to primary health care for Testing–Traceability-Isolation, and a work disability subsidy payment and reviewing the situation of waiting lists in different areas.
How will this be funded? In different ways. Measures involving implementing resources under the current Budget Law propose “greater additional tax collection from better projections of the higher price of copper from both private mining and Codelco”. 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.

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