He presidential candidate of the Broad Front, Yamandú Orsi, He tried to dispel the internal differences of the opposition space by assuring that, in case of being the winner in the elections 2024, “We are going to do what the program says.”
At times when a discrepancy occurred in the FA due to the wage policy, which had as its protagonist the economist Gabriel Oddone, Who proposed deindexing them, Orsi clarified: “The opinions of economists, whether close or not, are their opinions.”
However, faithful to his composing role, the former mayor of Canelones He stated in a press conference that “it is good that the discussion takes place” and added: “I refuse to accept unanimous teams, that each person thinks what he thinks and absolute transparency.”
When asked about his relationship with Oddone, who sounds like a eventual Minister of Economy The FA candidate clarified that the cabinet “has not yet been defined” and confirmed that “the economic leadership” will be decided after the vote, although he did not hide “a very close relationship and daily consultation” with the economist.
Along those lines, he insisted: “Whoever assumes responsibility, we will comply with the Frente Amplio program, which is clear when it speaks about the issue of wages. It speaks of being able to increase the minimum wage and the recovery of the real wage as the central objective.”
The debate on wages
Oddone had proposed to make the Salary Tips and use “unhooks” in order to consider the “heterogeneities” of each collective bargaining, specifically differentiating the companies from Montevideo of the inside.
In this regard, he indicated that he is in favor of de-indexing wages and prices in the economy. “In this economy we have many private contracts that have clauses in which there is a mechanism that triggers an adjustment of the contract, whether it is the exchange rate, whether it is the inflation. We have to work on that because it is part of the indexation of the economy,” he warned.
That vision was questioned internally and the president of the Broad Front, Fernando Pereira, He was blunt: “Yes Uruguay out Norway and inflation had been 2 or 3% consecutively for the last 20 years, it would not even be a topic of debate, because that is where the salary increase or salary stabilization that one wants to have is set.”
“In a country where inflation has been below 10% for almost all of the last 20 years, but has fluctuated, it is not logical that workers should lose out,” warned Pereira, who disagrees with Oddone’s position.
Source: Ambito
