US EditionGovernment Will Take over the Administration and Financing of Public Transport Subsidy in Regions
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Alejandro Santana, governor of Los Lagos and leader of the Association of Regional Governors of Chile, said that "we have been informed that effectively the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications will take charge of the administration and the costs derived from the policy of subsidies produced by the Mepco in the regions".
During these days we have followed with great attention — and also with concern — the discussion that has been opened by the Government regarding the future of the Fuel Price Stabilization Mechanism, MEPCO. It may seem like a technical or specialist debate, but in reality it is a subject that directly impacts the daily lives of thousands of families in our city of Temuco. The price of oil and its derivatives influences virtually all areas of the…
The regional capital woke up this Thursday with the new prices on the slates, overcoming the barrier of $1,700 per liter of Benzina. The lack of regional authorities for Energy and Transport and the possibility of a reduction of microbuses in the streets exacerbate the crisis in the north. What was feared finally happened. This Thursday 26 March the most severe fuel price adjustment of the last decades in Chile was realized, after the government…
This Thursday the announcement that marked, until now, the week and its respective public and political debate has been realized. Since this day, the increases in the prices of the fuels are carried out after the modifications to the Mepco by the government. This amid questions of the community, entities of the civil society and the parliamentary world, which has been reinforced by the images of long rows of cars in servicentros with the idea of…
The modification to the Fuel Price Stabilization Mechanism (MEPCO) opened a new conflict front between the central government and regional governors, who refused to assume the cost of mitigating the rise in public transport. Through a public statement, the Chilean Association of Governors (Agorechi) questioned the possibility that it would be the regions themselves that absorb the impact. “The proposal that each governor see how to mitigate the …
The Regional Governments grouped in the Association of Governors of Chile (AGORECHI) declare the following: 1. The decision to modify MEPCO will have a strong impact on the quality of life of millions of Chilean families. The increase in fuel not only increases the transport and distribution of essential goods, but also hits with special severity the regions, where distances are greater, connectivity is limited and the local economy is heavily d…
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