Petro calls on residents to signal the pension reform in Plaza de Bolívar – 2024-06-28 23:21:51

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2024-06-28 23:21:51

President Gustavo Petro referred to as on residents to assemble in Plaza de Bolívar on July 16, the place the Pension Reform just lately authorized by Congress might be authorized.

«I would like the signing of this legislation to be accomplished within the Plaza de Bolívar on July 16, I am going to anticipate you right here“, mentioned the president through the launch of the PAS (Solidarity Provide Factors) venture in Soacha.

The brand new legislation, authorized on the finish of the final legislature, contemplates will increase in pension subsidies for aged women and men, in addition to particular recognitions for ladies who’ve devoted their lives to the house. In her speech, Petro defined that the subsidies might be targeted on two inhabitants teams, growing their quantities to 230 thousand pesos per thirty days. This measure goals to raise one particular person out of poverty and lengthen it to 2 million aged women and men all through the nation.

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The president additionally addressed the necessity to appropriate historic injustices, particularly for these moms and grandmothers who’ve devoted their lives to elevating a house with out receiving monetary or pension recognition. “Many moms and grandmothers who devoted their lives to elevating a house and this sexist society doesn’t acknowledge them as work, nor does it depend in financial statistics and the time devoted over a lifetime to elevating little kids doesn’t depend in direction of a pension,” mentioned Petro.

Petro urged the Constitutional Court docket to not be influenced by those that oppose the reformhighlighting the significance of investing within the lives of three million folks and guaranteeing the suitable to a good pension. “I ask the Constitutional Court docket to not take heed to the siren songs of the enemies of the folks, who don’t need the cash we’re going to spend to be invested within the lives of three million folks and in the suitable of each employee, in the event that they meet the necessities to retire, to be given to the folks and to not see it transformed into bankers’ income,” he emphasised.

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