Through a message, through his account on the social network his mandate.
(Read: The figures on which the Government based the decision to raise the minimum wage by 9.53%).
According to Duque, that year the largest real increase in the minimum wage in the last 50 years was made, which the current Government “it has not been able to overcome (…) and which coincided with the year of greatest growth in the history of Colombia”.
“In 2022 (set in December 2021), we achieved the largest real increase in the minimum wage in the last 50 years, an increase that not even those who call themselves “progressives” have been able to surpass. “Our increase coincided with the year of greatest growth in the history of Colombia.”Duque wrote on the social network.
(Here: TransMilenio and SITP fare will rise to $3,200 in 2025).
Here is Duque’s big lie, which he is aware of, and which some analysts eat whole.
Confuse the norm as it seeks to establish a minimum wage, with the economic concept of a real minimum wage.
In economics, the current year’s minimum wage is not compared with… https://t.co/t1gABYf1Bh pic.twitter.com/q0DIsqXaxC
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) December 26, 2024
Minutes later, President Petro commented on this message that the “2022 was not the year with the highest real minimum wage in history but one in which the minimum wage fell 3%. It is the year of hunger in Colombia”.
Besides, Petro questioned the figures provided by Duque and accused him of lying and confusing Colombians about the increase in the minimum wage in 2022.
(Also: With the increase, how much will it cost to formally hire a worker who earns the minimum?).
“Here is Duque’s big lie, about which he is aware, and which some analysts eat whole. He confuses the norm as to establish a minimum wage, with the economic concept of a real minimum wage. In economics, the minimum wage is not compared of the current year, with last year’s inflation, but with that of the year in which the salary was valid. If the data is handled in this way, the year 2022 was not the year with the highest real minimum wage in history but one in which the salary. minimum fell 3%. year of hunger in Colombia”wrote Petro.
This exchange of messages occurs two days after The Petro Government will announce an increase in the minimum wage of 9.54%, leaving the figure at 1,423,500 pesos (1,623,500 pesos with transportation assistance).
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