The coordinator of the Uruguayan pension reform, Rodolfo Saldainquestioned the president of the PIT-CNT, Marcelo Abdalafor not wanting to discuss some of the consequences that the plebiscite proposed by the union center in the country’s retirement system.
The lawyer and former president of the Social Security Bank (BPS) assured on his social networks that the “plebiscite of PIT-CNT and sectors of the FA establishes fundamental changes that end the current system and create a new one, which would make any future dialogue difficult.
In that sense, Saldain regretted, in a publication on his social networks, that the president of the PIT-CNT and authorities of the Uruguayan union center “have rejected the invitation” to debate with him on some issues related to the plebiscite and its consequences.
Saldain’s proposals
First of all, the lawyer assured that the plebiscite “is a pension reform in itself” since it changes the structure of the mixed regime of 1996 and establishes all the relevant parameters (ages, working time and calculation formula).
In that sense, for Saldain the plebiscite “It does not aim to modify the reform carried out in this government, but rather it destroys the pension system that has historically made us proud and creates another one, with new rules that make it totally unsustainable.”
“The plebiscite would incorporate into the Constitution the causes and calculation formulas of the Transition Regime of Title VI of Law 16713 of 1995. It would perpetuate a regime that was already unviable as a definitive regime, much more unviable with the demographic dynamics of this century,” the lawyer added in his account. x.
With this, Saldain questioned the “proposal for a new pension regime that was born orphan of any social dialogue; exactly the opposite of the super intense dialogue process of the reform enacted in May 2023 by the current government,” while he also noted that no studies, specialist in the subject, economist or of any training has shown support for the plebiscite. “Wouldn’t this be proof of how misguided the initiative was?” she asked herself.
Arbeleche’s approach
At the beginning of this month, the minister of Economy and Finance (MEF), Azucena Arbelechesaid that the possible reversal with the reform would affect the image of the Uruguay and the “clear rules” that represent it before international organizations.
“It would be appropriating the resources of Uruguayans in the pension funds,” he defined. “It is changing the way the game is played, because it is taking the money that is in the pension funds, because it is making the social security system unsustainable, because it is having to get resources from somewhere to pay for retirements that I cannot imagine any other way than.” be a higher tax,” he questioned.
Even when asked by a member of the audience, Arbeleche went further and stated “If we go backwards in the social security reform it is nonsense, if that means increasing taxes, obviously we have a major deterioration in competitiveness.”
Source: Ambito
