The president, Luis Lacalle Pou, responded to the criticism received for the economic measures of adjustments to salaries and pensions due to the increase in inflation, and assured at a press conference that any measure “is always insufficient,” but the government “tries to be fair with the resources it has.”
Lacalle indicated that the adjustments of 2% to public salaries and 3% to liabilities “they cost all Uruguayans” around US$ 125 million. “We are trying to sustain an economy that, despite a pandemic, we have tidied up, you know how we receive it”affirmed the president.
For the president, this arrangement of the economy is reflected in a decrease in unemployment and informality. In addition, he explained that from the government they hope that this increase in inflation “will not last long”.
Lacalle Pou stated that ignores the economic measures proposed by the Broad Front this Monday, and delivered to Executive Tower this Tuesday. The opposition’s option package includes “the elimination of VAT on products of the basic basket” in supergas and diesel for companieskeep the price of fuels fixed until the end of the year, increase the allocations of the Uruguay Social and Equity Plans, a additional increase in the National Minimum Wageamong other.
In any case, the president He will meet with the trade union center on May 3 at 3:00 p.m. in the Executive Tower.
The PIT-CNT asked to meet both with Lacalle and with the Ministry of Labor (MTSS) for believing that the proposal of the Executive Branch was “absolutely insufficient”. In the meeting with the Ministry, the president of the plant, Marcelo Abdala, proposed establish an amendment so that the National Minimum Wage (which is adjusted in January) also has an increase in July, so that “it reaches many more people”.
