On numerous occasions, legislators from the coalition have expressed their intention to vote on the bill before the end of the year in the upper house, but for the opposition the bill is too “extensive and complex” to deal with it with such speed.
For the legislator of the National Party, Jorge Gandini, the times are limited but it is still possible to meet the goal of giving the project half a sanction before the end of the year, “It is not clear yet. I don’t think it will make it to next week. The last week of the year sounds more familiar to me,” said the pro-government legislator.
For his part, Rodolfo Saldain, one of the drafters of the social security reform, considered that the Broad Front (FA) questions the project only for “electoral purposes.”
The former Minister of Labor and Social Security of Uruguay, Ernesto Murro, said days ago that a study establishes that “half of the people will not reach the age of 65 to put together 30 years of work and 30% will not do so either. the 70s,” he commented. Murro added that “the government is aware of these reports.”
On this, Saldain replied that “it is not sustained” because the Banco de Previsión Social (BPS) “is going to reduce its budget level very much in the long term as a result of the change in ages,” he explained.
On the other hand, Frente Amplio senator Oscar Andrade proposed that the reform include the possibility that people before retiring can choose the regime that best suits them. This initiative had the support of Cabildo Abierto, one of the partners of the government coalition.
