The former president said that patience, around the discussion of the pension reform, is running out.
Guido Manini Rios he responded to the sayings of the president Julio Maria Sanguinetti who rushed to Town meeting about the discussion that is taking place between the coalition and the executive branch in relation to the social security reform and some points on which they disagree.
The leader of Cabildo Abierto remarked that Sanguinetti was not in the meeting he had with the president Luis Lacalle Pou and the main author of the law, Rodolfo Saldaín, and that his intention is clearly to pressure. “I have a lot of respect for Dr. Sanguinetti, but I think it is not appropriate to talk about the end of patience,” Manini Rios remarked in an interview on the television program Double Click radio.
On the other hand, he expressed that he was surprised by the susceptibility to the demands of Cabildo Abierto in relation to some modifications that they propose that affect “less than 2%” of the resources they provide. “I am surprised that for something so minor in the whole the continuity of the project is put at risk,” he said.
In this sense, he recalled the moment in which his coalition presented a bill that established regulations for the forestry industry and Lacalle Pou vetoed them. “We were high enough to look at the mountain and not the tree,” he said, adding that the coalition’s internship is something that “perfectly with greatness can be fixed.”
Manini Rios established that it does not seem responsible for him to continue with a law that “was born weak.” “Political responsibility also includes making sure the law sticks. It is irresponsible to vote for a law knowing that those who want to challenge it will do so And they have all the tools. The law that is born weak is condemned to no longer exist in a short time ”, he remarked.
What are the claims of Cabildo Abierto on the pension reform?
As a central requirement for their accompaniment, from CA they demand that the number of years taken for the calculation of the replacement rate is lower: while the current project proposes to increase it from the last 10 years –or the best 20– to 25 years, the Manini Ríos space proposes that it should be 15 years.
On the other hand, they expressed the intention that the minimum age established in the file, of 65 years, has more exceptions. In addition, they demand that the Notary Box of the reform and that AFAP cannot invest their funds abroad.
Source: Ambito
