This Friday, July 29, Pereira received the President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pou, at the headquarters of the Broad Front, who seeks to achieve the consensus of the opposition for the reform of social security.
The government bill that establishes the new Integrated Social Security System provides that people born in 1966 or before, regardless of their retirement affiliation, will configure grounds in accordance with the provisions in force under the current regime.
While people with thirty or more years of computed service, regardless of their retirement affiliation, will configure retirement cause upon reaching normal age as follows: for those born in 1967 a retirement age of 61 years, in 1968 they will require 62 years, in 1969 they must be 63 years old and those born in 1970 reach 64 years, from then on the age for retirement is established at 65 years.
rigor and depth
After the meeting, Pereira said that the Broad Front will analyze the proposal “rigorously, sensibly, and in depth.”
For the FA, which is a party that has defended productive development with social justice, “social protection is one of its priority axes and has been during its three governments.”
“Guaranteeing social protection from the time a person is born until they die is one of the most important concerns that progressivism has,” Pereira said at a press conference.
He added: “We are aware that we must guarantee the financial sustainability of social security, but we are also aware that we must guarantee social sustainability.”
NAFTA, Trans-Pacific Treaty and investments
On the other hand, Pereira presented Lacalle with three issues that were not on the agenda.
The president of the FA said that he raised with Lacalle the need for interparty dialogue on public security, more information on the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with China, more information on the Trans-Pacific Treaty, and the need for the Executive Branch and the Parliament understand about greater investment for the University of the Republic and science.
“That Uruguay assumes that the transformations of the future depend on how much the country invests in its scientists, academics and intellectuals, and that the response of the Rendering of Accounts is highly insufficient in relation to the demands that both the University and the Uruguayan scientists have. “, said.
