The new project of Executive power for the reform of the Professional Box there will not be a vote today in the Senate and in this way everything seems to indicate that it will be until 2024, since the deadline to approve the modifications is this Friday, October 27, just one year before the elections of next year.
The initiative proposes to implement an increase in the contribution rate to the Retirement and Pension Fund for University Professionals (Cjppu), after the collapse of the social security institute reform project.
Some leaders believe that the changes do not represent an expense and could be discussed during an election year, but there are differences on other fronts, even more so considering that, as it turned out, the Box It will not enter a crisis until 2025, so the situation could wait another year.
What did Lacalle Pou say about the project?
Prior to the non-treatment of the new project, the president Luis Lacalle Pou He referred at a press conference to the rejection of the original initiative. “I am not a political analyst, I have to adapt and accept reality,” he said, although he admitted: “It is not what we wanted.”
In line with what was stated by the Minister of Labor, Pablo Mieres, Lacalle Pou He maintained that the new text “what it does is stretch out the agony” and compared it to the previous proposal. “What we proposed was really a rescue, a rescue and giving life to a Professionals Box”, he pointed out.
Along the same lines, the president pointed out that the new initiative “is to give a little more air to the lungs and reach the next government,” but he countered: “We did not do what we wanted, which is to take the risk and responsibility of assuming the costs of solving it forever or at least for 30 or 40 years.”
The claim of the Professionals Fund
For its part, from the Cjppu They were “very surprised” at being “the only group that has not been able to find a solution,” according to its president. Virginia Romero, by echoing the rejection of the bailout and comparing it with what happened with the Bank Cash and accusing the political system of turning its back on them.
“We never thought that we were not going to have a law, worse is not having any law,” he said. Rosemary, who questioned the lack of consensus: “Let them agree and give us something, a law.”
Source: Ambito
