Jasmine Bullorini
12/15/2020 6:25 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 12/15/2020 7:01 PM
The three Lavagnista deputies and the two Santa Fe deputies with socialist roots that make up the Federal interblock announced that they will reject the pension reform project that comes with half sanction from the Senate.
They also assured that they will present their own initiative,
which includes in the index the evolution of prices and cost of living,
eliminated from the Executive's mobility calculation.
The decision complicates the ruling party to be able to approve the bill in the lower house, where it needs allies to obtain a majority, after the half-sanction that the Frente de Todos obtained in the Senate by a wide margin.
"We are not going to
follow the
retirement mobility formula approved by the Senate of the Nation because it
continues to harm retirees and pensioners.
They cannot continue to be the variable for adjusting the errors incurred by successive governments," they declared in a brief statement signed by members of the Federal Consensus bloc,
Alejandro "Topo" Rodríguez, Jorge Sarghini and Graciela Camaño
;
the deputy of the Socialist bloc,
Enrique Estévez;
and his
counterpart
from the Progressive Front,
Luis Contigiani
.
At the beginning, with the open discussion, Sarghini - economic spokesman for Lavagnism - had assured that the formula was going "in the right direction", however he raised two points: that the update period instead of six months be shorter and that thus As a ceiling was proposed if the final result were above 3% of the growth in collection, lower limits were also set "to take care of purchasing power."
The first point was modified in the bill that was approved in the Senate, but the second was not.
Given that the bill already has half approval from the Senate,
they assume that it will not be modified
and thus, they assure, they will not accompany it.
They will present their own, which is led by Contigiani, which will include other parameters such as
cost of living, collection, prices and salaries.
"We have our proposal and we are going to defend it. A fairer formula, with a guarantee that no real income will be lost," they said.
In their arguments, the legislators criticized both the formula applied during
Mauricio Macri's administration
and the one that the
Alberto Fernández
government now intends to establish
.
"Mauricio Macri and Cambiemos seriously harmed them by changing their system, with a pension mobility formula that is only defensible in an economy that fails: it stagnates or decreases with high inflation. They were also harmed by the dollarization of rates and its harsh impact on the economy. cost of living. Now, the proposal of the Frente de Todos and Alberto Fernández does not solve the problem of flattening and loss of purchasing power, "they detailed.
In this sense, they struggled to find a "fundamental" solution for a "broken system."
"It is essential to increase the number of contributors
, which can be achieved by incorporating 50% of the private workers who are today in the informal sector and creating jobs.
That is the great social mandate that the government must fulfill," they concluded.
In dialogue with
Clarín
, Sarghini added: "We do not want to discuss more patches. This level of informality is no longer sustained. Although theoretically the current formula could be correct, where the economy is going is going to be a new adjustment."
In this sense, he stressed that the formula they propose has a guarantee for the lowest categories to function as a "defense" for retirees until the underlying issue is resolved.
The decision complicates the ruling party that needs to win votes from allied blocs to achieve the number necessary to approve the project.
The Frente de Todos has 117 votes and needs 12 more to reach the 129 that guarantee safe approval.
Without the five Lavagnists and Socialists, and with the two Left Legislators who consider that the formula is a "looting" of retirees, the four Cordovan people who also make up the Federal inter-block will be key, along with the two Justicialists, Eduardo Bucca and Andrés Zottos and the 6 deputies of the Federal Unit and Equity block led by José Luis Ramón from Mendoza.