Sebastián Piñera has announced the reverse of the metro increase and is betting on a social agreement in Chile

Although the President of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, focused his discourse on the rejection of violence featuring a "small group of criminals who do not respect human life", He acknowledged that his management still did not solve the economic problems that affect Chilean workers, such as the price of the metro ticket.

Piñera had already made a self-critical Sunday of the Palacio de la Moneda when he announced the urgent dispatch of a bill suspending the increase in the cost of subway tickets, which the Congress finally approved Monday during a special session, leaving without making the $ 30 rise.

But the president of Chile admitted that the workers had other economic problems that his government still could not solve. As a result, he informed at a press conference that since on Tuesday, he will hold talks with the leaders of the opposition partiesas he did Sunday with the Senate Speaker, Jaime Quintana, the leader of the deputies Iván Flores and the president of the Supreme Court of Justice, Haroldo Brito.

"I hope (with them) that we can move towards a social agreement," said Piñera de La Moneda. "I thank Parliament for adopting the law we sent yesterday to freeze the increase in the metro ticket," he said.

In this scenario, he put forward other measures to take into account: "I am aware that it is only the first step of a long way to go. on measures for increase pension income and lower the prices of remedies".

But, on the other hand, he repudiated once again the violence featuring a "small group of criminals who do not respect human life". Justice investigates the deaths of 11 people during police-suppressed demonstrations. At closing, the president predicted: "I hope you can return home in peace, take care of yourself and your families."