Cortés stressed that despite the fact that the president referred to a payment of more than 150 million dollars, from Minera Panamá, to address the IVM problem. no response has yet been received.
The National Coordinator of Retirees sent a letter to the President of the Republic, Laurentino Cortizo, and another to the director of the Social Security Fund (CSS), Enrique Lau Cortés, to request a meeting in which they will receive a response on the current situation of the Disability program. , Old Age and Death (IVM).
According to Guillermo Cortés, leader of this coordination, the president of the republic has until May 24 to assist them, otherwise on the 25th of this month at 10 in the morning they will go out to protest in various parts of the country.
Cortés stressed that despite the fact that the president referred to a payment of more than 150 million dollars, from Minera Panamá, to address the IVM problem. no response has yet been received.
“When the president announced this, he should have already had the contract in advance in terms of signing it with the mining company and taking it to the Assembly, but then the entire month of April passed, the disputed parties went on a picnic and he did not take it to the Assembly,” he said. .