Santiago de Chile, Nov. 7 (EFE) .- The Government of President Michelle Bachelet today secured the approval of the Chilean Senate for the capitalization of Televisión Nacional de Chile for 47 million euros. dollars in order to overcome the economic crisis that crosses.

In ordinary session, the room approved the initiative by 19 votes in favor and 7 abstentions. Alta had given the green light to the creation of a cultural signal on public television, a decision that received an amount of 18 million dollars.

The article must continue its legislative process and now it must be reviewed by the Chamber of Deputies.

The Chilean conglomerate of opposition Vamos went to refrain from supporting the capitalization project and rejected the creation of the cultural channel, as had been anticipated by the senator of the conservative Independent Democratic Union (UDI), Hernán Larraín.

"We want to keep National Television, but the way in which it has proceeded prevented us from supporting the proposal made by the Executive, "Larraín added.

The legislator denounced that" the government has imposed impossible conditions, how to approve a 2 (cultural) signal, which we know is deficient. Senator of Amplitude Lily Pérez said that Chile has at this moment "other priorities" and not to finance a state channel "that does not report to anyone".

Meanwhile, Senator Felipe Harboe, of the ruling Party for Democracy (PPD), spoke of a "covert agenda" for Chile Vamos, assuring that his "plan" is that an eventual next government of Sebastián Piñera will be try to show that National Television can not be supported economically and therefore must be sold to private ".