2024-08-30 07:04:35
Despite the result, the initiative has not yet been rejected and must go through a final step in the Chamber of Deputies.
The Constitution Committee of the Chamber of Deputies voted this Tuesday, August 27, and generally rejected the idea of legislating the bill of seventh withdrawal of funds from the AFP.
The proposal had Four votes in favor, nine against and zero abstentionsIn detail, who showed up according to the initiative They were parliamentarians Raúl Soto (PPD), Marcos Ilabaca (PS), Pamela Jiles, and Miguel Calisto (PDC).
While lawmakers who voted against were: Jorge Alessandri (UDI), Gustavo Benavente (UDI), Camila Flores (RN), Andrés Longton (RN), Javiera Morales (FA), Maite Orsini (FA), Luis Sánchez (Republican Party), Raúl Leiva (PS) and Leonardo Soto (PS).
What path is next for the AFP seventh withdrawal project?
Even though it was rejected in the commission, the seventh withdrawal project still has a chance and will enter the the Chamber of Deputies and Representatives Hall, but with negative report.
In this way, the initiative will be discussed and voted on in the Lower House. If the proposal is rejected again, it cannot be brought back to the table for a period of one year, which has happened in previous projects related to this subject.
In this regard, the deputy Ruben Oyarzo He said that “as expected, the withdrawal project was rejected. It was what I told them at the time, now what is left? “self-loan”.
Along these lines, the parliamentarian said that he will go to the Constitutional Commission to “ask that it be put on the table Self-loan which is the most viable projectwhich is the one with the most consensus and which is sleeping in the Senate on pension reform.”
On the other hand, the president of the commission, Congressman Miguel Angel Calistosaid that only the idea of legislating was voted on. “Therefore, since it was rejected, The Court is sovereign and must decide whether to validate the position who took the commission or reverses it,” he said.
He added: “The Chamber could easily vote against the committee’s report and that would mean that it would vote in favour of a new withdrawal. If that happens, the project returns to the committee and that forces us to begin the process of a new 10% withdrawal of pension funds.“.