This Tuesday around 11:00 p.m. the Chamber of Deputies approved the social security reform after several hours of debate on the articles of the project, which had begun at 1:00 p.m.
Now, the project will be sent back to the Senate, where it will be discussed in an extraordinary session that was set for this Thursday afternoon.
The discussion of the articles in the Chamber of Deputies took place, for the most part, in the midst of a mobilization of the PIT-CNT called against the reform retirement and a 24 hour general strike decreed by the union center.
On the afternoon of this Tuesday the broad front held a press conference for express their position against of this reform.
The Socialist Party deputy, Gonzalo Civila, assured that the project is “very negative” for the majority of Uruguayan society”. “Project whose heart or essence is to ask people for more requirements to access a retirement or pension. Project that means a great setback for the majority of society Uruguayan,” he said.
Photo: Leonardo Carreno.
The deputy of the Broad Front, Ana Olivera
And he added that this reform comes hand in hand with what is proposed in “other countries of the world” under the “recipe of some international organizations”.
“The government has privileged this class focus that from the beginning we have denounced but even so we have tried to make contributions to the project”, remarked Civila, who did not rule out that the Broad Front carry out other actions once the law is approved.
“It is a discussion process that will give political force in due time,” he responded to the query to convene a plebiscite or eventually repeal the law in a Frente Amplio government.
The coalition, for its part, celebrated the approval of the project.
The nationalist deputy Sebastián Andújar, also president of the House of Representatives, assured that the coalition has the sensation of “mission accomplished“. “Parliament debated, worked intensely and made efforts to perfect a bill that underwent many modifications. There was really a conscious work by both chambers,” Andújar highlighted.
Photo: Leonardo Carreno.
The nationalist deputy Sebastián Andújar, president of the House of Representatives
Regarding the changes that the project suffered -due to the claims of the different partners of the coalition-, the nationalist deputy maintained that laws as comprehensive as this “they always leave something on the way“. “What they should never leave is the objective. The objective of this is a viable system –which today is not–, sustainable over time –which is not so today either– and a transformation process to make something much better”, he pointed out.
“We have to assess what is the substance and the final objective“, highlighted Andujar.
