The senator expressed at a press conference that his political space “has done what he announced from day one.”
Within the framework of the “Minas y Abril” festival in the department of lavallejathe senator and leader of Town meeting (AC), Guido Manini Rios shot at a press conference against the former president of the Republic, Julio Maria Sanguinettistating that “capable of another party defaulting, but CA does not“, but that his political space “has done what he announced from day one” in relation to the social security reform.
The senator’s statements refer to the words expressed a few days ago by Sanguinetti, who had stated that CA had breached “two agreements” between the partners of the Multicolor Coalition make the bill viable. For Sanguinetti, the first agreement for a “final version” of the reform had been announced on October 17, 2022 and then challenged, while the second was given in the SenateAnd it didn’t bear fruit either.
Regarding these accusations, Manini Ríos expressed that “on the part of CA there was no non-compliance“, and added that” in Parliament we are going to seek to improve the project, and we are going to support it because we understand that it is necessary, that is what we are doing.
After the president Luis Lacalle Pou yield to some modifications of the bill that CA required in order to make it viable, the Colorado Party (pc) took it as a sign of openness to the negotiations, for which reason he requested a fourth intermission in the Commission of Deputies to review the project and propose new points.
Faced with this situation, Manini Ríos stated that “the PC will be satisfied“, and although “he will make some proposal”, he expressed his certainty that “they will act seriously and responsibly as CA has acted, improving the law in what can be improved”, but “ensuring that there is reform because the country needs it “.
Argimón seeks to deal with the project “as quickly as possible”
Also present at the festival, the Vice President of the Republic, Beatriz Argimon, was expectant at a press conference before the changes suggested by the PC, but confident that after the evaluation process “your vote would correspond in the chamber.” As explained by the deputy head of state, by the time the project returns to the Senate “we plan a treatment as soon as possible“.
In turn, Argimón recalled that the government is “within the deadlines it had planned” and that “the important thing is that we can vote and comply with something that we know is necessary.”
Source: Ambito
