The senator of the Colorado Party (PC) Adrián Peña responded to the former candidate for the Presidency, Pedro Bordaberry, who said that the party should not accept the changes that Cabildo Abierto (CA) proposed in the social security reform –and that President Luis Lacalle Pou accepted– and, therefore, not vote for it.
“In pursuit of that ethic of responsibility of the Colorado Party, I think the most irresponsible thing would be to leave the country without reform”said Peña this Monday in first morning Radio El Espectador.
Manini Rios requested the drop of 25 to 20 years from the retirement calculation of the best years, as well as to treat in another bill the possibility that AFAPs expand their investments abroad. Given the agreement between the Cabildo and the President of the Republic on one of the points that were presented as “immovable”, the Colorados They requested an extension to analyze the new modifications to the project.
In his column for El País, this Sunday Bordaberry affirmed that both the Broad Front and CA do not want “a pension reform that solves a problem that the country will have after this period of government ends.”
“Let them assume the electoral risk of explaining how they will solve the problem,” said the former senator.
“There is a coincidence in the evaluation of the situation,” said Peña. “That is why the party asked to stop the presses and asked for ten days to evaluate and analyze and did not vote automatically that Thursday with these changes. I believe that in pursuit of that responsibility and that ethic of responsibility of the Colorado Party, I think the most irresponsible thing would be to leave the country without reform,” said the former Minister of the Environment.
“We ask the president for a change to first assess the impact of this and to see the possibility of proposing some change in the project, to the extent that fIt was agreed within the party that what had happened was a change in the bases of negotiation. There had been an agreement in October, then a vote with half sanction in the senate with immovable pillars. Well, they were not definitively immovable and there was a margin to be able to work on new proposals and that is what we are doing these days,” explained Peña, who returned to the Senate after resigning from the Ministry of Environment due to the controversy surrounding his title. academic.
This Monday the bicameral bench of the PC will define what will be changes that will be proposed to Lacalle Pouas condition to approve the pension reform. The “seven and nine” proposals that all the Colorado sectors contributed will be discussed.
“If from the calculations It arises that one of the ideas is unapproachable, we are not going to present it, because our obligation is that this has the lowest possible cost and to continue acting with the sense of responsibility that characterizes us,” said the senator.
“There may be some cost, but it’s not too much,” Peña said.
as he learned The Observerone of the approaches seeks improve lower pensionswhile another will try to correct a “leap” –recognized by Rodolfo Saldain– that creates “new fifties” by harming those born in 1973who will have to retire at 63 while the 1972 ones they will be able continue to retire at age 60. The colored proposal supposes incorporate the benefit of retiring early for those who have a high number of years worked.
The discussion also includes the possibility of extending the incorporation of any of the parastatal fundsfor example the Notary.
In addition, at the impulse of the deputy of Third Way, Gustavo Zubiathey will also raise a greater reduction of the Social Security Assistance Tax (IASS).
