The Broad Front presented this Monday, April 25, a battery of proposals to mitigate the country’s economic and social crisis in the face of price increases.
The proposals refer to: Employment, wages and retirement and prices.
Prices
In this sense, the left coalition proposes the elimination of VAT on 19 products from the basic food basket and supergas, for a period of six months.
“What is urgent is that the purchasing power of wage earners and retirees grows, which is why we believe that this benefit is necessary. We propose that it be done, in addition, by electronic means so that it is effectively reflected, ”indicates the FA.
Another of the proposals is to maintain the price of fuels in general without an increase and at least until the end of the year.
They consider that “it is necessary for Uruguayan households to begin to recover, for this the government must stop increasing the price of fuels, which has such an impact on the prices of the basic food basket.”
salaries and pensions
The FA calls for an immediate increase in public wages and the national minimum wage.
“The volume of the adjustment proposed by the ruling party is very insufficient compared to how prices have risen. We are proposing alternatives to a model that does not have people as its center”, questions the FA.
In this framework, another of the proposals refers to a permanent increase in pensions and an additional one for minimum pensions that is not deducted from the next adjustment in January 2023.
The left ensures that inflation grows month by month. “Those who receive a minimum retirement can not continue waiting.”
Likewise, it is proposed to grant differential increases for rural workers in the sectors that had an extraordinary performance in the last year. “While some sectors have had extraordinary profits, rural workers are still waiting for the spill.”
Employment
Adopt measures that allow access to the sectors affected by the pandemic that generated indebtedness.
“There are sectors that still today suffer the consequences of having faced the economic situation generated by the pandemic alone,” affirms the FA.
That is why they “urge” measures that allow them to deal with their debts.
Deepen tax relief measures in border businesses to cushion the competitiveness difficulties they are experiencing.
“Small and medium businesses, especially in the interior of the country and particularly on the border, bring together thousands of citizens who are experiencing a serious situation,” he warns.
The FA points out: “If the economy grows, let it grow for everyone.”
