Pedro Bordaberry advised by force not to accept the changes of the Cabildo Abierto because it would go against party ethics.
Faced with the delays that occurred last week for the vote in the Chamber of Deputies of the social security reform bill, the Executive power is eager to start the debate and subsequent vote, awaiting the responses of the Colorado Party (PC) who seems to be reluctant to accept the changes proposed by Open Town Hall (CA).
Last week, President Luis Lacalle Pou accepted the requirements of the Cabildo Abierto de lower the age from 25 to 20 for the calculation of the retirement pension in the reform. This caused the Colorado Party, feeling excluded from decisions in the coalition and witnessing a structural change in the reform, to request two intermediate rooms to analyze the changes in the planned formula and the economic consequences that this could generate.
Faced with this, the Vice President of the Republic, Beatriz ArgimonHe said that he awaits the response of the Colorado Party in the next few hours. “We are waiting for the evaluation. After all this process, your vote in the chamber would correspond,” he said and remarked that he plans to discuss the project “as fast as possible”.
However, the vice president remarked that they are still within the deadlines that had been proposed by the Executive and that “the important thing is that you can vote and comply with something that we know is necessary”. On the other hand, he stressed the role of the president in maintaining dialogue with all political parties, the assembly of the system and his intentions to maintain the balance to achieve a positive vote on the reform.
Bordaberry advised the PC not to accept the changes in the project
In his weekly column on Sundays, the former senator and former candidate for the Presidency, Pedro Bordaberry, He said that the Colorado Party should not accept the changes proposed by the Cabildo Abierto and accepted by President Lacalle Pou. According to Bordaberry, from the CA they must assume the electoral risk and explain how the problems will be solved from these structural changes in the reform.
According to the former senator, the PC should not accept the changes because “Agreements are to be fulfilled” and that accepting it would mean not acting according to the ethics of responsibility that considers it as the “DNA” of the party. Bordaberry, like most of the representatives of the Colorado Party, criticized the president’s actions against negotiate bilaterally between the CA and the Executive Power, without taking into account the other leg of the coalition.
Source: Ambito
