The Chilean President, Gabriel Boric, assured this Saturday that will insist on tax reform that this week it was rejected in the Chamber of Deputiesbecause without it it is “very difficult” to finance a pension reform.
In an act in La Moneda one year into his term, Boric summoned the ministers of his cabinet to be permanently on the ground and not lose contact with parliamentarians or with social organizationsreported the Ansa news agency.
“Don’t think about the next election, think about the next generation” he told them, adding that “to win elections you have to do the job well and for people to recognize that there is a change in their quality of life,” he added.
He then referred to rejection in the Chamber of Deputies of the tax reform projecta project that can be reintroduced by the Senate, where the ruling party does not have a majority.
For the president it is very relevant because it would serve, for example, to finance the pension reform.
“Without a tax reform it is very difficult to finance a pension reform and people cannot keep waiting. There are Chileans who are dying, people who have worked all their lives and do not have a decent pension to live on, we cannot keep making them wait,” said the 36-year-old president, quoted by the Chilean media El Mercurio.
“We are going to insist on the tax reform with a strategy that we are discussing with the Minister (of Finance, Mario) Marcel,” he said.
On the other hand, regarding the change of cabinet that took place on Friday with the relay of five ministers and ministersHe said that he considered “combining better management with experienced ministers” and people with “a vocation for public service but perhaps they had not had the opportunity” to reach the places of decision.
The Chilean Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday generally rejected the tax reformone of the main projects of the president’s program, which defined it as a pillar to carry out his government agenda.
With 73 votes in favor, 71 against and three abstentionslegislators they rejected the proposalwhich required a simple majority for approval.
Among the measures that the reform considered were benefits for the middle class and apply a tax on wealth and another on income.
Now the government only has to resort to the support of the Senate Otherwise, the reform will not be able to be discussed in Parliament again for one year.
Source: Ambito
