[Politics] Right approves freedom of choice in health, pensions, education and restricts the right to strike

[Mr.Hacker]

The exemption from contributions for the first home, the “freedom of choice” in health, pensions and education, and the limitation on the right to strike. These were the main regulations promoted by the advisors of the Republican Party that were approved this day by the Plenary Session of the Constitutional Council. All of these norms were not supported by left-wing councilors, but since they are a minority in the room, they were finally approved. The one that was in doubt until the last minute was the exemption of contributions, but a favorable vote from RN advisor Germán Becker made it approved.

The advisors of the Republican Party managed to impose four amendments in the plenary session of the Constitutional Council, including the most po[CENSORED]r of them - or populist according to experts - and which until the last minute ran the risk of being dropped: the exemption from payment of contributions to the first home.

In fact, the greatest controversy arose on this last point, because there were four right-wing votes that were in doubt. They were Edmundo Eluchans (UDI), Lorena Gallardo (RN), Gloria Hutt (Evópoli) and Germán Becker (RN). Even before the vote, Evópoli's constitutional expert, Sebastián Soto, warned that "the December plebiscite will not be won through these debatable rules (exemption of contributions)", later adding that the rule is questionable "in the constitutional, the technical and the political.”

The norm reached just 30 votes, despite the abstentions of Eluchans, Gallardo and Hutt.

 

 

This is because Becker voted in favor of the measure, which was approved as follows: the “property intended for the main home of the owner and his family will be exempt from all contributions and land taxes. The law will determine the way to make this right effective.”

“Freedom of choice” in health, pensions and education
Republican advisers achieved the approval of complete “freedom of choice” in education, pensions and health.

In health, the initiative did not have votes from the left, since they accuse that this norm “constitutionalizes the Isapres.” “It is the State's preferential duty to guarantee for all people the execution of health actions, through state and private institutions, in the form and conditions determined by law, which may establish mandatory contributions. Each person will have the right to choose the health system they wish to benefit from, whether state or private,” says Article 16, paragraph 21, letter b.

The same thing happened in education, since “freedom of choice” was also approved so that parents have the “preferential right and duty to educate,” and to “preferentially determine their best interests,” among others.

“Families, through parents or, where appropriate, legal guardians, have the preferential right and duty to educate their children or wards, to choose the type of education and their educational establishment, as well as to preferably determine your best interest. It will be up to the State to grant special protection to the exercise of this right,” says the approved amendment.

 

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