The President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pou, will present the draft of the social security reform to the coalition partners on Wednesday, July 27, as reported to The Observer Presidency sources.
The text was prepared by the lawyer Rodolfo Saldain, who chaired the Social Security Experts Commission (CESS) and participated in the 1996 reform. The Minister of Labor, Pablo Mieres, the Minister of Economy, Azucena Arbeleche, worked in the discussion. , and the director of the Office of Planning and Budget, Isaac Alfie, among others.
The document will be delivered to party leaders.
as he knew The Observerthe project foresees a transition regime of 20 years and that it begins to govern 5 years after being approved.
In turn, it contains a rise in the retirement age but does not cover all workers, since five sensitive sectors are excluded, including construction and rural workers.
It also forecasts a global increase in the minimum wage.
Lacalle Pou has transmitted that the reform is “good” and that the population will understand the need to approve it if the urgency that the country has to find a solution of this nature is correctly explained to them.
In turn, he has expressed his willingness to pay the “political cost” of doing it, although he believes that he will end up with the support of society.
One of the issues that worries the president is the situation of the Professional and Banking funds, whose urgency is extreme, although the project will be complete and will cover all of them, including the Retirement and Pension Services of the Armed Forces.
The intention is that no person earns less than what is projected now.
Regarding the urgency to approve it, the president has said that what is at risk is nothing more and nothing less than the system so that his children could retire.
