Sources: Radio Cooperativa and Chile public holidays. Regular readers might recall that in our post of August 15 we mentioned that a draft bill had been sent to commission (boletín 5256-06 de la Cámara de Diputados) proposing that Monday, December 31, 2007, be made a one-off bridge public holiday.Yesterday, the commission in charge of studying it sent it to the floor of Parliament for a vote, but with a rcommendation to reject the bill, arguing that beyond all other considerations, it would be a waste of time as getting it fast tracked to a vote is low on the list of priorities of the executive (ie. President Bachelet). Thus it is almost certain that Monday, December 31, 2007, will be a regular working day in Chile (although banks will have the day off, as was always the case in the past).
The PPD deputy at the origin of the bill, Rodrigo González, interviewed on the Un Nueva Mañana radio show, defended his proposal saying that December 31 falling on a Monday, no one would be doing any work on that day, anyways.
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