The president of PIT-CNT, Marcelo Abdala, invited the pre-candidate National Party, Álvaro Delgado, to debate the plebiscite against social security reformin Uruguay promoted by the union center: “It is not with me that he has to debate, it is with his members of the Broad Front, the part that does not accompany this plebiscite,” said the former Secretary of the Presidency.
He PIT-CNT is increasingly closer to reaching the threshold of signatures necessary – 270,000 – to enable the popular consultation that seeks to reform the constitution in matters of social security. And, as the final deadline approaches to submit accessions to the Electoral Court, on April 27—six months before the national elections in October—criticism and concerns are also increasing about the consequences of the eventual approval of the proposal.
In this scenario, Abdala challenged Slim to debate the plebiscite after the nationalist candidate warned of the “catastrophes” that a constitutional reform like the one promoted by the PIT-CNT “and some sectors of the Frente Amplio” such as the Communist Party and the Socialist Party. “I believe that the quality of the information of our people and our democracy makes it necessary and urgent to public debate that sheds light on this and other issues,” considered the union leader when proposing the debate.
“Let’s get out of this fear campaign “which is not helping at all,” he said, ensuring that the PIT-CNT defends “that social security is a human right for our people.”
Delgado’s response to Abdala’s challenge
Asked about it at a press conference during his campaign tour, Slim He assured that he had woken up with the news.
“We did the opposite of what they are doing, we gave people a guarantee to make a social security reform“, after generating social dialogue for two years, to give stability to the system and to ensure future retirements,” considered the candidate, and added that “they are gathering signatures, and they will surely get them, to repeal not the reform, the system, go to repeal the AFAP, what they were not encouraged by the Frente Amplio government, and to confiscate 22,000 million dollars of the voluntary savings of all Uruguayans to ensure our retirements.”
“It is not with me that Marcelo Abdala has to debate, it is with his partners in the Broad Front, for example with Mario Bergara, candidate of the Frente Amplio who came out to harshly criticize the proposal of the PIT-CNT and the vast majority of the Frente Amplio that will accompany this plebiscite that generates uncertainty and, the truth is, a black hole in the pension and economic future of the country,” said Delgado.
Then, the pre-candidate took a step further in the discussion, and maintained that if the president of the PIT-CNT “is very eager to debate the specific proposal for this reform and the benefits of this reform that were approved,” as well as “the harm, uncertainty and insecurity it generates, and obviously the collapse it generates if it is approve the plebiscite”, you can do it with Rodolfo Saldain, coordinator of the current reform and promoter of the 1996 reform, which created the AFAP and voluntary individual savings.
“We are offering you that if you want to debate with Saldain, with great pleasure, to talk specifically about the goodness of this reform to secure the system and obviously the uncertainty and the very negative situations, I believe catastrophic, that would generate the plebiscite being approved. for the pension future of Uruguayans”, he redoubled the bet Slim.
Source: Ambito
