This project, which recognizes care as a human right and an inescapable responsibility of the State, represents a milestone in the transformation of the Chilean social model. But it also raises questions that the trade union and feminist movements have been quick to raise.

The session was accompanied by members of the PSI Women's Committee in Chile: Carolina Espinoza (Confusam), Selma Núñez (Fenpruss) and Gina Sennas (Anef), who have been an active part of a sustained work of advocacy, political dialogue and construction of the indications to the proposal for the right to care to be recognized and protected in the country.

Carolina Espinoza, leader of the National Confederation of Municipal Health Officials (Confusam) and also head of the Southern Cone of the PSI Women's Committee, stressed that "this project represents an achievement of the women's movement and of the PSI unions that have fought to make visible the care work provided by public services. We want a robust care system, with decent work, a gender focus, state participation and not-for-profit".

The committee members were accompanied by Nayareth Quevedo, PSI's sub-regional secretary for the Southern Cone, who warned that "the care society is not built on profit, but on solidarity. Caring cannot be a business: it is a right, and the State must guarantee it with strong public services, financed, with decent work and effective participation of those who care and need care.

PSI proposed improvements to strengthen the text, such as ensuring sufficient funding through the inclusion of the Ministry of Finance, incorporating clauses that limit market interference, and guaranteeing decent working conditions for paid care workers.

"We are concerned that the text, in its article 7 literal e), explicitly encourages private investment, without establishing clear regulatory mechanisms or guarantees against commodification. The international experience is clear: where care is privatized, quality deteriorates, employment becomes precarious and those who cannot pay are excluded," said Quevedo in his presentation during the session.

During the same day, the president of the National Association of Public Employees (Anef), José Pérez Debelli, also intervened and emphasized the importance of strengthening the public institutions that will support this new system, especially in regions and rural territories.

With this endorsement in committee, the bill - bulletin 16.905-31 - advances towards its vote in the Chamber. "We will continue to be vigilant and meet with different parliamentary benches so that the transforming spirit of this bill is not diluted. Because building a society of care requires more than speeches, political commitment is needed to guarantee the active voice of those of us who have historically supported this right from the public services in Chile", Espinoza pointed out.