The president of the House Finance Committee, Gael Yeomans (CS), said he hopes that the pension reform has the «minimum base» implied by the votes of the ruling partyfrom where objections have arisen to the latest update of the proposal.
«At least I will always have the concern of what is going to happen.because we had a bad experience with the tax reform and that cannot be repeated, especially considering that we are in the third year of the term (of President Boric) and for the same reason, we no longer have time to carry out a reform as important as this,» he warned in The Cooperative Journal.
Asked about the coordination of the Government Alliance Looking ahead to the vote in the Chamber of Deputies, he considered that «all parliamentarians have an individual responsibility for their vote, regardless of whether one is part of a bloc», however, «one may have particular differencessome element that you don’t like, that you would like to change and that is legitimate, but another thing is to prevent us from having reformwhich would be voting against the idea of legislating.»
«I would expect the minimum basis that all the ruling parties are in favor of the idea of legislatingIn other words, there are not enough excuses – and I believe that the parties also have a relevant role in the dialogue with their parliamentarians – to vote against the idea of legislating, it would seem really unusual to me,» the deputy stressed.
PROTECT OFFSETS
As for the objections to the formula of 3 and 3 accepted by the Government for the 6% additional contribution, Yeomans admitted that «in principle it did not seem positive to me because of the commitments and guarantees that social security has, and that they could be violated if we reduce it every time, (but) that is resolved, the formula has no effect».
Therefore, he revealed that «If we reduce social security even more, the committed compensation will also be reduced regarding life expectations, including guaranteeing that the more years one contributes, the UF will also be committed at the beginning.
In this regard, he recognized that on the center-left, the independent deputy Carlos Bianchi has stated in committee that «he wants the Executive to put another formula on the table, where a different calculation of mortality tables; that they be shortened, not eliminated.
«I think it is up to the Executive to see whether or not that alters the reform to some degree, but I’m going to be very stupid: it seems to me that compensation cannot be harmed already guaranteed by the reform, that is, shortening social security further will harm women, those who have dedicated their lives to care work, and also the valuation of years of contributions,» he insisted.
MINISTER ROJAS’ «HIDENDED» AGENDA
On the other hand, the representative criticized that the Environment Commission of the Chamber – with an official majority – removed the minister’s floor of the branch, Maisa Rojasafter he registered a third meeting due to the Lobby Law at the home of UDI Pablo Zalaquett.
«I think it is important to clarify the issue of the meetings attended: in this regard, parliamentarians have the legitimate right to ask questions and question, especially if it has not been clear from the beginning. That is why I remain of the idea that both parliamentarians and ministers must raise them by Lobby Law, because these controversies that do nothing to advance the agenda«Yeomans began.
However, «it seems very questionable to me that the progress of the Ministry’s legislative agenda has been hindered; there is no area in which I can agree, on the contrary. It seems to me one It is tremendous irresponsibility that pro-government parliamentarians obstruct the legislative agenda of Environment».
«Questioning the minister is fine, it can even be done from the benches or from the parties to the corresponding internal spaces that exist,» such as the Political Committee that meets weekly, «but it hinders the legislative agenda, harming the power to have the inspection tasks guaranteed by the Superintendency, has no reason to exist«.