The union center reached the necessary adhesions to enable popular consultation on pension matters.
He PIT-CNT will deliver today the at least 270,000 signatures necessary to enable the plebiscite against social security reform in Uruguay and submit to popular consultation a constitutional reform in pension matters. To do this, they prepare a caravan that will go to the Parliament, where the vice president Beatriz Argimon will receive the accessions.
“We are in the return operation and it is going very well,” he assured. Gustavo González, secretary general of Fucvam —which integrates the PIT-CNT— a Underlined, and added that on Saturday “a new feat of the social movement of our country” will be commemorated.
The union center is preparing the logistics for the delivery of signatures for the ballot that establishes the retirement age at 60 years, equates the minimum passivities with the national minimum wage and eliminates the AFAP and profit.
According to González, they managed to exceed the minimum number of signatures required to enable the plebiscite. This Saturday, before noon, the promoters of the popular consultation will announce the exact number of signatures at a press conference, at the headquarters of the PIT-CNT; but accessions will be received until the last minute. Around 1:00 p.m., they will arrive in a caravan in a truck with the boxes containing the signatures, which they will deliver to the president of the General Assembly, Beatriz Argimón.
Orsi’s criticisms
The presidential candidate for Broad Front, Yamandú Orsi, He spoke about the plebiscite and assured that he does not support the initiative because he does not agree with the way it is worded. “That citizens have to resolve later is not a worrying factor. I simply do not support the proposal because of how it is worded, but we should never be worried about something that involves involving society in a discussion, which of course we will have to have,” she stated.
However, he admitted that the popular consultation is united by its objective, which is to position himself against the reform approved last year. “We are united by opposition to reform of social security that this government carried out, we do not consider that it was a good reform and we do not consider that it solves the problems, I think that some accentuate them,” he explained.
“The formula that was chosen and the text that was decided to be incorporated into the referendum It doesn’t convince me. It is not that I am against a move that aims at the same objective as us, but it does not seem like the best path to us,” the candidate concluded.
Source: Ambito
