Marcel’s “impossible mission” to cut fiscal spending in the year of presidential election - La Tercera

The numbers in the fiscal box have been deteriorating for a decade and will probably continue in red in the coming years. Far from the fiscal surplus scenarios of the first decade of the 2000, when the actual balance even exceeded 7% of GDP in the midst of the copper price boom, the latest projections anticipate a scenario of fiscal tightness that arouses concern among analysts and the political world.