translated from Spanish: Minister Palacios on the blackboard: from all sectors they demand the government to resolve as soon as possible the situation of the $1 million bonus for fairgrounds

On all sides, pressure is being exerted on the government so that fairgrounds throughout the country can receive the Relief Bonus, which amounts to one million pesos, as part of the economic support measures approved by Congress, without any problems.
Both the blocs of deputies of the DC and the PPD summoned the Executive, the UDI did the same from the ruling party and this day Senators Adriana Munoz (PPD) and Yasna Provoste (DC) left Congress to tour the free fair of Avenida Argentina in Valparaiso to ask the government to eliminate the restrictions, since the benefit will come only for those who have initiated activities before the SII.
On the spot, they targeted Economy Minister Lucas Palacios, who has been the target of all criticism. According to the president of the Senate, it is a “dye because they are not being recognized as microentrepreneurs (…) and if it is not clear to the Economy Minister, he also reports the lack of governability that this government has, because we have written information where there are economy seremis in some regions of the country that recognize that only with municipal permission they access the bond while other seremis of the same Ministry propose a different thing.
For her part, Senator Munoz pointed out that “here there is an abuse by the government in the sense of twisting The Parliament and that is twisting the nose of the sovereign people,” so she recalled that “we have presented an interpretative law so that it is clear what has already been approved.”
“There was a commitment and from the UDI we are going to fulfill it”
From the ruling party, a group of UDI deputies, led by the head of the bloc, Juan Antonio Coloma, announced the entry of a bill that eliminates the requirement to start activities for microentrepreneurs of free fairs to access the benefit, and that supplements are also included as beneficiaries of the fiscal contribution.
The legislator stressed that “we seek to ensure that the one million pesos bonus reaches all fairgrounds in Chile. That is why we call on the Government to understand that there is a commitment to be able to support all the fairgrounds of our country.”
“And to avoid that erroneous interpretations prevent fairgrounds from receiving this bonus, is that today we have presented a bill that seeks to exempt all fairgrounds in the country from the obligation to have initiation of activities and that at the same time will have as the only additional requirement, to have their patent up to date on June 30 of this year” , Coloma added.
“In this way, we want to avoid delaying the payments of the different bonds to the fairgrounds. We want to ensure that the resources reach the fairgrounds in full, that there was a commitment and from the UDI we are going to fulfill it,” the parliamentarian added.
Finally, Coloma asked the government to put “immediate discussion to this project, to ensure that all fairgrounds can receive the Relief Bonus and have the peace of mind that we are going to support them, because from the UDI we support entrepreneurs and all those who with their effort are returning to stand the country after this hard pandemic.”
Meanwhile, the deputy of the UDI and member of the Labor and Family Commissions, Cristián Labbé, said that “currently the SME Relief Bond is leaving out an important group, all those fairgrounds that work day by day, from sun to sun, together with their families, since they will not be able to apply and I ask , please reconsider bearing in mind that this bonus must be universal.”
Likewise, the unionist parliamentarian commented that the benefit should be “for everyone, we can not leave some out and especially the fairgrounds that have had a hard time in the pandemic.”
“Let them take a tour of our regions and communes”
In opposition, DC deputies Jorge Sabag, Joana Perez, Miguel Angel Calisto, Ivan Flores, and Daniel Verdessi insisted that the government cannot change the interpretation of the law and that the situation of the fairgrounds is “overwhelming.”
The DC deputies today called on the government to “resolve as soon as possible the exclusion that would be affecting thousands of fairgrounds in the country, leaving out of the relief bonus for SMEs.” They accused “lack of empathy, disconnection with reality and an absence of common sense to support workers in pandemics.”
In this regard, Deputy Sabag pointed out that “when we processed the law we expressly approved the inclusion of fairgrounds and arthealthy; what is happening now violates what was agreed in Congress and a work that we do always thinking of including the thousands of fairgrounds.
Deputy Joana Perez, added that “in the House to have the relief bonus of $ 1 million pesos for the fairgrounds, regardless of whether they were formalized and whether or not they had their municipal patent up to date. That is why we have to find a formula for the support for the fairgrounds to materialise. I believe that rather than interpreting the law or needing an interpretative project for it, what is needed is simply to change the operation with which the delivery of this bond is determined because this aid was an exception that we gave to the work that was done with SMEs and therefore I call on the government.
Perez added that “I do not want to think that this is an underhanded strategy of the government to basically not deliver the support to the fairgrounds that need it so much and if they are not available we will initiate any control action that allows the law that we have approved to be applied.”
Deputy Ivan Flores, meanwhile, added that “I would ask the government and Minister Palacios to take a tour of our regions and communes and to know the reality of free fairs. They have not understood anything and they still do not understand. Every time there is support, an exception arises that harms people.”

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