Economist Noam Titelman and TPP11: “Now that fake news is so fashionable, they insist on things that are not there today” in the treaty

The economist and former student leader close to President Gabriel Boric, Noam Titelman, referred to the TPP11 that this Wednesday will be voted on in the Senate Chamber, and the conflicts that it has generated within the ruling party, in the coalition of the Executive.
“It seems to me that there are two issues and one has to do with coalitions and another has to do with the TPP, in particular with coalitions. Well, I’ve been raising this for a long time, but I actually find it incredible that there is still no name for the governing coalition. We still talk about the two coalitions and in practice, once they entered to govern together, there is a coalition that will have its internal divisions, but having so many names that in the end one even forgets,” he began by telling VíaX.
“The sign of the political times we are living in Chile today is that of fragmentation. And precisely to combat this fragmentation we need to have better and more consolidated coalitions. I think it’s a challenge and there’s a particular challenge for the parties. So I would say, first of all, I think that the Frente Amplio has long since consolidated itself as a party and not different parties for the majority of Chileans,” he added.
On TPP11, he said that “one of the problems that has been in that discussion is that originally there was TPP12, which was an agreement in which the United States participated and effectively, in any international agreement there are costs and there are benefits. At that time there were some very important costs in terms of intellectual rights. There was a demand, for example, for patents, for seeds, for medicines, for the use of the Internet, which were very controversial. So controversial were they that when the United States leaves and you get to TPP11 they all get out.”
“Now that fake news is so fashionable, they insist on things that are not in TPP11 today. That is why I also think it is legitimate that there may be people who, unlike what happened with TPP12, are in favour of TPP11. And the issue that is still under discussion has to do with the courts that would define in cases of differences. And there are certain groups that claim that the ad hoc courts that are in the TPP11 would rule in a very pro-company way and that you can solve that by something that has a half-siutical name, the side letters, which for example New Zealand, which is also a signatory of the agreement, also has its own side letters. ” Added.
“It seems to me that that’s reasonable, it’s part of the discussion. I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong. The worrying thing is whether it is used as an excuse not to sign and I think it is another issue. But if together with signing, because it seems to me that at this point it seems that there are no reasons of terms of a cost-benefit analysis to oppose, it is reasonable to negotiate these side letters as well, “he closed.

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