The Minister of Labor, Jeannette Jara, referred that Tuesday to the request of companies to keep malls and shopping centers open on December 17, the day on which the plebiscite on the new proposed constitutional text will take place.
After attending the In order to make a modification to that provision, a legal change is required, and three weeks before the elections, and there is also a week in between in which Congress is not in session, it is not possible to legislate this initiative.”
In December, he said, there is a business “that has its main sales month and we could talk about it going forward, but to raise it today, almost two weeks, or three weeks away from a plebiscite, the truth is that it does not have any sense of reality.” .
“We understand that there are good reasons that may be behind this proposal, but the proposal also has to be presented in a timely manner.”
However, Minister Jara pointed out that “we have to be very serious about this and we will be able to discuss it from now on, without a doubt, generating a permit in adequate time so that people can come and exercise their right to vote in a democracy such as this.” this”.
