Today at 10 a.m. a new meeting of the Special Commission What is the project about? social security reform in Uruguay and, although it has not yet been fully defined, there is the possibility that the deputies will finally begin to vote on the article, in an intermediate position between the “original plan” of the nationalists and the president Luis Lacalle Pouand the lobbyists.
Yesterday afternoon’s meeting made one thing clear: the discussion and any agreement no longer had a place in the Parliament, but in Suarez and Reyesin the fully reserved meeting held by the president and the leader of Open Town Hall (CA), Guido Manini Rios. With the one-month extension voted —a point for the lobbyists, who sought to extend the term of treatment of the project in commission— and the firmness of the government in not modifying the basic retirement salary calculationthe negotiation margin was small, but not non-existent.
In the annex building of the Legislative Palace, Martin Sodano and Alvaro Perrone they stayed barely 20 minutes in the commission meeting and left, waiting for it to happen at the presidential residence. Meanwhile, the other deputies continued working on the project. Particularly in the substitute articles that the parties of the coalition agreed and that would have the majority in the vote.
The objective is that today, starting at 10:00, at least those articles that have the necessary consensus to move forward can be voted on; and leave the points of greatest conflict to be dealt with in greater detail in the time bought by the pact between CA and the Broad Front. In this way, everyone “wins”: the nationalists manage to start voting on the reform at the agreed time without, a priori, putting the coalition at risk; and the lobbyists have the extension to continue negotiating their conditions.
This was explained by the deputy of the National Party (NP), Juan Martin Rodriguez, in a press conference: “The commission has been summoned for this purpose. Surely, at the beginning we will request an intermediate quarter of an hour to set some guidelines, and then we will be determining if we actually start voting and with what rules, ”he indicated.
Regarding the meeting between Lacalle Pou and Manini Ríos, the deputy said that there is “good results”but insisted on waiting until Friday to be able to reveal how the meeting developed.
The vote on the home prison project for people over 65 years of age has a date
The government coalition agreed to prioritize in the Constitution and Legislation Commission of the Senate the bill for home prison for those over 65 years of age that promotes Town meeting (AC). The initiative would be dealt with on April 11after the Tourism Week recess, and CA would request its approval as a bargaining chip for its legislators to support the vote on the social security reform.
This initiative is controversial, since would reach more than 20 people who were convicted of crimes against humanitysomething that, as he warned International Amnestyit could be a form of covert pardon, according to the document to which he accessed scope.com.
For his part, he National Party (PN), proposed modifying the bill towards “comprehensive house arrest”, and will try to convince the other members of the Multicolor Coalition to turn the discussion around his new proposal. In a second order, the project for the restructuring of debts to individuals, also proposed by CA, will be discussed.
Source: Ambito
