That was what the senator and leader of the Cabildo Abierto Guido Manini Ríos asked on the air on Monday the 27th on Radio Sarandí, regarding the end of the term to study and approve the retirement reform in a commission of Deputies.
“The bulk of the law will only come into force in January 2033. What is the great urgency of approving it this week? Why can’t it be approved within a month, within six months or in the year 25?” Said the legislator, in what is now seen as an early announcement of the decision made yesterday in plenary session of the commission.
During the interview, Manini Ríos expanded on the details of the main objections that his party has with the project presented by the Lacalle Pou government.
“We make every possible effort to bring capital from abroad and sometimes we make concessions that we do not make to the Uruguayans, so that an outside capitalist comes to invest in Uruguay, and on the other hand we are going to be taking the money from the Uruguayans abroad. ”, he said about allowing the Afaps to invest their capital in financial markets abroad.
“We think that it is not the best use, apart from the risks that taking money out of the country clearly has, we are seeing it these days in what is happening in the financial markets,” he pointed out.
The other point that does not convince the lobbyists is the average number of years to calculate retirement. The reform increases this term from 15 to 25 years.
“It is too much to take a person who contributed for 30 years to 25,” he gave an example, because “their first salaries” will enter, the lowest in their work history, for the final calculation of that person’s retirement.
“We want it to be a good law, that we can all defend it and that it remains in force in our legal system. What good is it that we now approve a law if in a few months, by whatever means, a plebiscite to be called for October or a parliamentary mechanism in the future, ends up repealing what we are approving now?”, the senator maintained. and leader of Cabildo Abierto Guido Manini Ríos.
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