“When we have the solution at hand and we get the votes, we have to move forward,” said the President of the Republic this Sunday, Luis Lacalle Pou, in defense of the bill that reforms social security and whose text varied with respect to the one presented by the Executive.
As soon as he got off the helicopter in the border city of Aceguá, where he participated in the celebrations for the 160th anniversarythe president was approached by the press and argued: “For many years, at least 15 or more, the entire political system has said that a social security reform is urgent (and) if one realizes a problem that has a society in the future, if future generations are in danger for their social security, their retirements and their pensions, we must make the change.
Lacalle Pou, who traveled in the Uruguayan Air Force helicopter with Lorena Ponce de León and Defense Minister Javier García, said that the government coalition agreed to “arrive at a project and have the courage and courage to carry it out (without) measuring whether or not it is convenient” politically.
This explanation has at least two background points. On the one hand, public opinion polls showed that close to half of Uruguayans disagreed or strongly disagreed with the social security reform and, above all, with the postponement of the retirement age. On the other, the conditions of the coalition partners strained the integration of the government to the maximum: Cabildo Abierto had set seven conditions to vote on the project, the colorados disagreed and put their other conditions and in between they discussed the negotiation style of the coalition. current administration. Finally this last week there was agreement in Deputies.
During his visit to Aceguá, the President of the Republic was consulted about the statements of the mayor of Canelones, the Frente Amplista Yamandú Orsi, who rebuked the president for his lack of knowledge of the public educational system given: “You never set foot in a public center.”
In this regard, Lacalle Pou replied: “I’m passing, as in Happy Sunday”, referring to the entertainment program in which the participants could not answer. At the insistence of the journalists, he continued without responding and only argued that “it is a lie” that his government favors the richest. He concluded: “Look at the investment and spending rates in Mides. It is not true (that the money goes only to the gold mesh), it is part of the story ”.
