Bellolio said there has been “good communication” with the incoming government despite differences over lithium.

The Minister Spokesman of the Government, Jaime Bellolio, who was in preventive quarantine due to contact with a person with Covid-19 spoke with Tele 13 Radio where he highlighted the “good communication” between La Moneda and the incoming government despite the differences that exist in the framework of the lithium tender. The Secretary of State said that the relationship of both after this controversy “remains the same, it looks good, in the sense that we have had good coordination, good communication, republican gestures have been made on both sides and for all those who have asked us for some requests we have agreed.” In the same issue of the lithium tender (..) we collected a very good part of the aspects they were requesting, and instead of bidding 5 quotas, 2 were tendered, “he said to the aforementioned media. In that line, Bellolio said that “I think that here there has been disinformation and fake news on purpose, not on the part of the President-elect or his team or those who are going to enter later as ministers, but on the part of other groups that begin to say that here we are giving away lithium, those are lies from beginning to end.” The only thing these companies are doing, one for 61 and another for 60 million dollars, they bought the possibility of having a special treatment in which if they find a deposit, with the corresponding permits and then go through the environmental system, “he said. The minister also referred to the change of command and stated that “it remains perfectly intact and we have had very good relations with those who are in that smaller group that needed that information and other things that are practical for administrative transfer. Another is the more political part of the change of command and those teams are working well, so I see a good disposition there.”

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