After the ideas and rounds between the parties of the official coalition, this Thursday the debate would be resumed.
Last week the president Luis Lacalle Pou gave in earlier to the demands of the Open Town Hall (CA) Faced with the debate over the reform of social security with the aim of keeping the coalition together, however, the Colorado Party considered that the changes reopened the debate and presented 10 ideas to modify the bill, placing more and more far from the objective of the Executive to vote on the reform as soon as possible.
Last Tuesday, the senator and leader of Town meeting, Guido Manini Rios confirmed that the party is going to give its vote for the project because the government had given in to their demands. The most important of them is that the Social Security Assistance Tax (IASS), as well as the change in the base of the reform by reducing the years that are taken to calculate retirement. Thus, it will go from 25 to 20, as CA claimed, despite the fact that the technicians who drafted the project had warned that its structure would be affected by this modification.
Faced with this, that same day the two benches of the Colorado Party met to analyze the modifications agreed upon by the Town meeting and they requested two intermediate rooms arriving at the date of the 20th of this month. This has the objective of, in addition to analyzing what was agreed in the coalition without the participation of the Colorado Party, proposing new changes in the project that they consider important because they consider that the debate has been reopened.
What does the Colorado Party propose?
Last Friday, the delegates of the sectors with parliamentary representation of the Colorado Party met to define a common response to the president’s agreement with the party led by Guido Manini Rios that guaranteed the votes of the lobbyists but, paradoxically, questioned the colorados.
At the moment, they are managed ten options among which they must choose to introduce the president, with whom they intend to have a meeting on Tuesday at the Executive Tower. The provisional catalog includes alternatives that were discarded at the beginning of the debate on the reform, because they affected the architecture of the project. However, after Lacalle Pou gave his arm to twist against Cabildo Abierto, even in points such as the loss of years for the replacement rate calculation of future retirements, the colorados understand that they have the same right as their coalition partners.
In the platform they also included innovative proposals but, equally, they do not represent “any madness”. One of the points included, for example, is the elimination of the Social Security Assistance Tax (IASS) —although this could jeopardize the financial stability of the Social Welfare Bank (BPS), contrary to what was sought with the social security reform. If this modification is not incorporated, Zubía has already announced that he will not give his vote for the approval of the project.
Source: Ambito
