The government’s flagship initiative needed 78 votes to pass overall, but got 73.
The Government suffered one of its worst legislative defeats in its almost one year in office, after the Chamber of Deputies rejected the idea of legislating the tax reform, the president’s emblematic project Gabriel Boric and the Minister of Finance, Mario Marcel.
The initiative needed 78 votes to pass overallbut finally only got the support of 73 congressmenwith 71 against and three abstentions.
The vote was marked by the absence of pro-government deputies, key abstentions and votes against some representatives of the center-left.
Among the great absentees from the vote appeared the independent deputies Pamela Jiles and Monica Arcein addition to the ecologist viviana delgado. They were joined by the front players Claudia Mix (common) and Lorraine Fries (CS), who were paired with Andrés Longton (RN) y Mauro Gonzalez (RN), respectively.
The abstentions came from Andres Jouannet (Yellows), Gaspar Rivas (PDG) y Enrique Lee (Ind).
The rejections came en bloc from Chile Vamos and the Republican Party, to which the former DC joined Joanna Perez, Michael Angel Callisto and Jorge Saffirioin addition to the representatives of the PDG Karen Medina and Ruben Oyarzo.
What could happen with the tax reform?
The rejection of the tax reform complicates the Government in the objective of complying with the series of social measures included in its program.
The refusal of the deputies would force the Executive to take other measures, as the entry of another similar initiative through the Senate. That would be informed shortly by Minister Marcel himself.
