DC Senators ask Bachelet to address possible failure of Transantiago law proposal

SANTIAGO.- After a four-hour meeting at the home of President  Michelle Bachelet, the senators of the Christian Democracy, led by the president of the party, Soledad Alvear, asked the President to “take radical measures” to address the possible rejection in the Chamber of Deputies of the law proposal that looks to subsidize public transportation in Santiago and other regions.

“If there is no support for the proposal, the State is going to have to take radical measures”, asserted former President Eduaro Frei.

The request comes just before the initiative, for which the opposition has already indicated its complete rejection, is scheduled to take be voted on Wednesday at the Lower Chamber.
 
Additionally, another one of the meeting attendees, the head of the DC board, Senator Jorge Pizarro, reiterated what had been stated by Frei.  “We are going to support everything and anything that will create more efficiency and efficacy in the service of Transantiago”, which in his opinion, “means that we have to inject resources into it”.