The president highlighted the achievements of his administration in terms of employment and contrasted the data with that of the last Broad Front government.
President Luis Lacalle Pou defended his management and highlighted the improvement of the employment in recent years and, when compared with the last government of the Broad Front, expressed: “From 2015 to 2019 in Uruguay 50,000 jobs were destroyed job. Since 2020, 50,000 have been rebuilt and 26,000 more have been generated.”
In parallel, Lacalle Pou valued the role of private sector and called to “manage the best possible taxes that they pay”, when pointing out during an event in Mines which is what gives impetus to commerce, activity, agriculture and the State.
The president thus referred to the growth of the employment rate, which is at 58.9%, its highest record since the end of 2016, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE)with unemployment of 7.8% and close to 1,724,000 employed workers.
In parallel, today it was learned that the demand for work has been stable for 9 months and is sustained by around 5,500 job opportunities. employment monthly since May 2023, according to the latest labor monitor of Advice.
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Lacalle Pou defended the private sector and referred to the role of the State
Besides, Lacalle Pou He assured that “true independence is being able to work and develop,” after which he noted: “There goes the private sector, which is what supports the country and the State. Without the private sector there is no commerce, activity, agriculture or State.”
“When that money arrives from the private sector, people who get up every day to raise the curtain, with the taxes that they pay, we have to do something that seems like a truism, it seems simple, but it is not: it is to manage it as best as possible,” said the head of state.
In that sense, he urged to “optimize human resources and return the highest percentage in plays” from the government and stuck out his chest when pointing out: “That’s what we do.”
“The employees of the people, who are the rulers, have to be neat in their accounts, be austere in the use of the state apparatus and return a peso above the other in management and work to the people,” he concluded. Lacalle Pou.
Source: Ambito
