The general secretary of the Colorado Party, Julio María Sanguinetti, took the floor at the National Convention held this Saturday to insist on the need to promote the social security reform. He pointed out that it is a “debt” that his generation owes to the intermediate generations: “Either we are going to leave it with a sustainable system or we are going to leave it with an Argentine-style atomic bomb to explode within two terms.”
The former president added that it is a matter of “principles.” “The government does not lose anything fiscally or financially in the social security reform. It is a matter of principles. It is an ethical issue (…) this reform is going to measure the ethical value of the political system,” he explained. the.
Sanguinetti added that they are going to propose changes to the preliminary draft presented by the government, although they agree “with the general lines.” “There are details, and some that are not so many details, that we want to change,” he said.
On the other hand, he argued that it is an easy problem to analyze: last year more Uruguayans died than were born. “That alone is enough to understand that the social security system must seek sustainability,” he valued.
Another key point of the National Convention was the discussion of the educational reform, on which the president of Codicen, Robert Silva, also spoke. Regarding this, Sanguinetti said that “unfortunately there has been an unreasonable opposition that rejects everything, but does not propose anything alternative, apart from some episodes of serious violence.”
National Convention expresses its support for the “process”
In a final statement, they declared their support for the social security reform discussion “process” “and the general lines that inspire it.” “It is an ethical duty of the national political system to preserve the sustainability of the system for the new generations, who cannot be bequeathed a problem that today can be tackled gradually, but which, if postponed, will end in a crisis like the one we are already experiencing. affects some boxes,” they said.
In addition, on the other hand, they reiterated their support for the educational transformation proposed by Codicen and repudiated the attack on Robert Silva’s home, which, they understand, “hurts democratic coexistence and the principles of the republican organization.”
