Deputies approved the social security reform project on Tuesday and the Senate is expected to begin discussing it tomorrow, Thursday, according to official sources.
It was approved with the votes of the representatives of the government coalition, by 55 votes out of 90 present.
“The common pension project has been approved,” said then the president of the chamber, Sebastián Andújar of the National Party.
Andújar explained that the “most significant” aspects of the reform are “the transformation of something that is not viable today (the pension system) and that is hurting the pockets of Uruguayans.”
“The goal is to transform something that is a problem into a solution,” he added.
Regarding the opposition’s criticism of the reform, the president of the Chamber of Deputies responded that “up to now what we have from the opposition is that they are going to work more and get paid less, something that could not be forcefully demonstrated from the point of view of the reform.” from a technical point of view”.
For their part, the representatives of the Broad Front held a press conference while the project was still being discussed at the venue.
The coordinator of the bench, the deputy of the Socialist Party Gonzalo Civila, pointed out that the pension reform project will have “a great negative impact on the majority of Uruguayan society.”
“The context of today’s vote was with a large mobilization at the door of the Legislative Palace. A mobilization of a group of social organizations that express broad sectors of our people and that throughout the debate on this reform have raised their opposition,” Civila pointed out.
