For Pit-Cnt union federation leader Marcelo Abdala, it is a proposal for pension security reform aimed at reducing and curtailing rights, benefits and benefits.
He noted that the text “reasons for us deep concern because we firmly but humbly believe that it is not good for democracy that the President failed to fulfill his 2019 campaign promise not to raise the retirement age.” the most questioned content. .
A targeted poll found that up to 72 percent of Uruguayans think the pension system should be reformed, but only 37 percent agree that the retirement age should be raised.
Pit-Cnt also questioned that the pension reform project leaves intact the “inequalities” of the privileged Military Retirement Fund as well as the privatizing Administrations of Pension Savings Banks (AFAP).
The president of the Broad Front, Fernando Pereira, wondered if it was a project of the entire coalition government or of the president, and in the first case it was interesting to listen to social voices such as those of the union headquarters and the chambers of commerce and pensioners “connected with certainty, the object of the reform and its content”.
He announced that the FA would study the issue very thoroughly and reasonably with 25 technicians based on a series of findings in the expert commission on handling the reform of the privileged military fund and how to deal with the majority of workers.
In another angle of the present, more than 20 Uruguayan social organizations filed an annulment lawsuit because the parliamentary elections to the board of the Human Rights Institution (Inddhh) tended to distort their goals.
In a press conference, speakers from the Association of Mothers and Relatives of Disappeared Inmates of the Past Dictatorship condemned as illegal an election process without guarantees of democracy and transparency and without greater involvement of social organizations.
The group’s spokeswoman, Elena Zaffaroni, warned against attempts to violate and distort the institution’s autonomy by taking away the function of controlling the state and defending, protecting and promoting all human rights of all people throughout the territory.
Meanwhile, Broad Front Senator Charles Carrera has called for the resignation of Interior Secretary Luis Alberto Heber for alleged untruths amid a public safety crisis.
He reiterated that the spate of killings and deaths was of great concern to the opposition and in the last few hours raised the need to declare a state of emergency with the department head, but ruled this out.
The week ended with the Broad Front extending its meetings with diverse communities to Montevideo to correct errors and restore the 2024 voting route.
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