The former president assured that it is necessary for retirements to be developed in the future, otherwise, they will have a bad time.
The former president of the Republic, Jose Mujicareferred to the plebiscite that the union center of the Uruguay, he PIT-CNTand assured that he does not share the method of carrying out the repeal of the law of social Security since within five or ten years it will be necessary to modify it again.
Mujica was consulted this Monday regarding the plebiscite promoted by the PIT-CNT – which was recently approved by the Electoral Court – and assured that it seems dangerous to change the Constitution. “It is a trap to put these things in the Constitution, it is dangerous because I believe that within five or ten years it will have to be modified again,” explained the former president.
On the other hand, he clarified that he understands the concern of the union center but not the method. “I share the concern of my colleagues, I do not share the method, it has to be a law because when you touch the Constitution afterwards you can’t move it,” said Mujica.
In that sense, the former president regretted that Uruguay He did not want to take charge of the demographic problem that he had to face. “It is forbidden to think 25 ahead,” Mujica lamented.
In addition, the former president stressed the importance of taking action as soon as possible to address the retirement problem. “The problem we have with future retirements is that either we develop and make the country take a leap to have an economy that allows us allow it to be subsidized or they are going to have a bad time,” he highlighted.
Mujica criticized security policies
In addition, to question the actions of his political colleagues, the former president took the opportunity to criticize the government’s actions regarding the unsafety. In that sense, Jose Mujica He assured that it is an issue dramatic and that the government “overcame it.”
With this, he stressed that the government did not have the dimensions of the importance of the issue. “Security and drug trafficking are complicated. They throated a lot, they spit up,” she explained.
Source: Ambito
