The mayor of Montevideo referred to a possible plebiscite and clarified that it will depend on the strategy of the Broad Front.
The Mayor of Montevideo, Carolina Cosse, He referred to a possible plebiscite to repeal the social security reform and clarified that it will depend on the strategy of the broad front, although he clarified that he has no doubts that “It is very bad and it must be changed”.
In the midst of the divergences that exist within the Broad Front on promoting a plebiscite for the reform, Cosse pointed out at a press conference that it will be “a resolution of the FA”, considering that it is about “a tactical issue”.
In any case, he tried to close ranks in the face of the FA inmate by pointing out that “the important thing is that we agree that it is very bad and that it must be changed.” Regarding the modality to be used, he clarified: “How it will look, the Broad Front will decide.”
Along the same lines, he insisted that there is “unanimity within the FA with respect to how bad it is for society this supposed social security reform”. And he added: “This is not a good reform, it is not even a social security reform: it is a pension reform and it is bad”.
The disagreement with the MPP
It is worth remembering that the Popular Participation Movement (MPP) resolved over the weekend not to go along with the plebiscite devised by the opposition against the social security reform, stating that it would be better to modify it through dialogue between employers, workers and the academic sector.
“It does not seem to us that using the constitutional plebiscite mechanism can provide elements to change a law,” they expressed from the MPP and pointed out that “laws are changed by referendum, but obviously social security laws cannot go to referendum, therefore what you have to do is change it with another law”.
During the last National Plenary, the party voted that it should “analyze and put on the table its different financing systems to evaluate the possibility of studying how to obtain resources and how to make effective use of them. In addition, it will seek to “consecrate a non-profit social security system that respects the principles of solidarity, broad coverage and sufficiency of benefits.”
Source: Ambito
