Teachers, workers and indigenous leaders of the dialogue for Panama that is taking place in Penonomé proposed to the Executive a new single table to debate the crisis of the Social Security Fund (CSS).
The members of these groups are unaware of what was discussed in the National Dialogue by the Social Security Fund (DNC), convened by President Laurentino Cortizo, in December 2020 and which is on pause, awaiting a report from the International Organization of Labor (ILO).
This was the first point of the topic on the situation of the CSS that began to be discussed last Friday night and did not advance much on Saturday, due to differences over the legitimacy of the National Dialogue for the CSS.
The alliances proposed creating a single table with other sectors and another facilitator -they propose the Catholic Church, which is in charge of the Penonomé table- that would analyze, even, the type of inputs to carry out the analyzes of the CSS crisis.
The Government, in turn, requested a recess to analyze the issue, which will be until Thursday, August 11. The facilitators also said that they should evaluate the idea of engaging in another dialogue.
In the coming days, the International Labor Organization (ILO) will deliver to the government of Laurentino Cortizo a preliminary report on the financial and actuarial analyzes with a view to finding a solution to the financial crisis that the Disability, Old Age and Death Program (IVM) is going through. ) of the Social Security Fund (CSS).
