He plebiscite of the social Security promoted by the union center, Pit-Cnt It generated controversy within social organizations and even political parties where a division of opinions was perceived; However, 61% of Uruguayan voters I would be inclined to vote in favor of the initiative that tries to nullify the reform promoted last year by the government.
According to a survey of Factum, while 61% are inclined to sign the plebiscite, 38% are still in doubt or would not sign and the remaining 1% have no opinion on the matter. Meanwhile, of the total likely to sign, 6% assured that they would “sign for sure”, while another 25% said they would “probably sign”.
For their part, of the total that would probably sign, 18% have doubts about it, the other 6% would probably not sign, while the remaining 14% will surely not sign the plebiscite. Among the number of voters who would surely sign the measure, 43% are voters of the Wide Frontoday 30% voted for the Multicolor Coalition.
The class factor, a determinant
Regarding signing intentions discriminated by class, the survey determined that 25% of the total number of people who would sign insurance are from upper class or upper middle class. For its part, 36% is middle class while 43% belong to the Medium-low class. Meanwhile, 44% are lower class.
This is an interesting fact, according to Factum since it determines that the lower middle class and the lower class have less interest in politics. With this, they establish that “making the signature effective is more difficult the less interest in politics; that is, there has to be a proximity, a militant muscle, let’s say, to collect the largest signature in the sectors that are more inclined to sign.” , which becomes a challenge for those who collect signatures.
The return operation
He PIT-CNT is preparing to begin the most active stage in the signature collection campaign to enable the plebiscite against social security reform in Uruguay. The organization hopes to reach the required 270,000 signatures by April 27 and even reach a total of 500,000 adhesions.
So far, the campaign has confirmed 66,000 signatures, according to official data from the PIT-CNT with cut to December. “We still do not have a count, we think that in the first days of February we will make a public announcement of how many signatures we have so far.”
“The idea is to target ‘operation return’ strongly, since although the signatures are coming out naturally, we are fine-tuning the procedures so that, precisely, those signatures reach the command of the PIT-CNT”, Clavijo explained.
The “operation return” refers to the actions that the union center is taking so that those signatures collected throughout the country through different mechanisms—such as plenary sessions, organizations and groups that go out touring, etc.—are sent and centralized in the PIT-CNT, “to have them tangibly.”
“That is what we have to work on a little more, because we believe that the signatures are there, they are being given easily,” considered the union member, and added that “the important thing is not only that the signatures are there, but that they reach the command for us digitize them and put them in a box and then, when April 26 arrives, deliver the signatures to the Electoral Court “all neat.”
“If all the signatures that are inside, which they tell us are there, came back, perhaps there would be considerably more signatures than 66,000,” said Clavijo. “We believe that the signatures are there and we are going to perfectly reach what we had proposed from the beginning, reaching 500,000 signatures in general, and the 270,000 valid ones that we need to enable the plebiscite,” he added.
or,” he explained. Carlos Calvijo, member of the workers’ representation team on the board of directors of the Social Security Bank (BPS) to the Public Media portal. The expectation is “a clearly higher figure” than that reported last year.
Source: Ambito
