The senator pointed out the statements of the former Colorado leader and expressed that not supporting the project would go against the “ethics” of the party.
The Colorado senator and former Minister of Atmosphere, Adrian Penacrossed the former party leader, Pedro Bordaberrysaying that “the most irresponsible” would be to leave the country without a social security reform. Peña’s words refer to Bordaberry’s sayings about the Colorado Party (pc) should not support the social security reform, after the President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pouwill negotiate bilaterally with Town meeting (AC) some modifications to the project.
For Bordaberry, the PC “must not accept” the fact that the Executive power have agreed with CA with their backs to the partners of the Multicolor Coalition. However, according to Peña, not accompanying the project would conflict with the “ethics of responsibility of the PC.”
Although Peña is in favor of supporting the reform, he acknowledged that “the diagnosis is compatible” and that “there is a coincidence in the evaluation of the situation”, in reference to the points raised by Bordaberry, and said that for this reason “the PC asked for ten days to assess the situation”, without voting “automatically”.
The Colorado Party did not expect the changes in the pension reform
At the same time, The Colorado legislator admitted that his party did not expect the changes in the project to which Lacalle Pou agreed, since the modification of years in the calculation of the retirement credit “It is a fundamental pillar”, next to “retirement age”.
According to Peña, these two pillars were “immovable”, since “any movement means changes in costs and calls into question the sustainability of the system“. The legislator maintains that “this is how it was always explained” to the PC, for which his party asked for a few days to examine the new configuration of the project.
Despite all this, Peña told the press that the approval of the reform “is a commitment that we assume”, being “very important that this materialize in the coming weeks.”
The legislator did not stop assuming that these changes, a priori, suppose “an approximate cost to the 300 million dollars that future generations will have to pay”, and “this makes the reform less sustainable”.
Source: Ambito
