President Luis Lacalle Pou was consulted on Tuesday about his 2019 election pledge, when he referred to the fact that it would not be necessary to change the retirement age. Today, the technical reports indicate that this is “impossible”said the president, and explained what happened.
“It’s true, I said it, it’s everywhere. I don’t want to make excuses”expressed Lacalle Pou before the press.
He added: “I insist that it is not an excuse. The reason for the change in position is that when we appointed the team of experts, one of my proposals was to comply exactly with the electoral commitment. Simply, After a few weeks of study, the expert team told me: it is impossible”.
He also argued that “reports on product spending in the retirement system said that by 2060 the situation we have today would be reached.”
He added that his rationale “is easily verifiable.”
The phrase
In 2019, the then presidential candidate for the National Party made a promise regarding the reform of social security and retirement age.
“You don’t have to touch the retirement age because you don’t have to violate any contractto put it one way: when you start working, you know when you retire,” said Lacalle Pou in March 2019 interviewed by radio Monte Carlo. Then he explained that “what needs to be done is to encourage” people to retire “at a later age.” For those who start their working life, however, “we will surely have to reform” the retirement agehe indicated.
The social security reform that the government is now proposing proposes a gradual increase in the retirement age until it reaches 65 years, although sectors such as construction and rural workers are left out of this change.
