The alarms were heard through the announcement of Hacienda of an agreement with the FMI. Deputies are looking for reforms in the short term to increase profitability of arrears.
Opposition groups called for the Minister of Health, Alejandro Zelaya, to make an integral reform of the government pension scheme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in order to obtain some $ 1,300 million in funding. as the opportunity for gold ”to revitalize the economy, the official announced a slide in an interview with Reuters.
According to the deputies Víctor Hugo Suazo, of the FMLN and Rodrigo Ávila, of ARENA, the announcement of Zelaya appears “a salvataje” that the Executive executes the “iliquidez” that enforces Hacienda by the “derroche” of the Estado money, bonuses used this year passed with the argument to wait for the emergence derived from COVID-19.
“I am concerned that the government will announce a pension reform in the market of the agreement with the IMF for a fiscal package. His interests are fiscal ”, Suazo stated.
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In the wake of the money approved by the Pandemic Emergency Assembly, there were “anomalies” in the more than $ 670 million that went to the Emergency Fund for Disaster Prevention and Control (Fopromid), including the Custodian of the Minister Government, in accordance with the analysis carried out by the Special Committee of the Assembly which invests the use of public resources for the pandemic, based on the most recent information received by the Fund Committee of Veeduria dichos fondos.
Reuters said in a statement that Zelaya wants the IMF to approve a governing credit line extended to 36 months, similar to the one announced this week in Costa Rica.
“We are going to help (the financing) to increase the breaches in the years 2021, 2022 and 2023”, explained Zelaya, and said that this would help reduce the high costs associated with the national debt.
“I am convinced that the governor is involved in this pension, because all things are certain that the governor is in a state of liquidity, because of the fact that he has tenure, now he has to see that the governor wants to echo the horrors of the contributors, it is a serious series, because each has its own account and it must be respected, ”Ávila said.
According to Zelaya, the reform proposal that impulse to plant is based on three eggs: at the moment, at the State, and at a moment’s notice to the actors who are managing the pension funds ”.
The last reforms to the provisional system approved by the Assembly took place in 2017. In these cases, Explain, Avila and Suazo, the profitability of pensions ranging from 1% to 4% will be increased and gradually it will increase to 5.8% . Also, it should be noted that the pension is vital to the creation of a Solidarity Guarantee Fund.
With the impetus of the Independent Member of Parliament, Francisco Zablah, of 25 initiatives under study at the Advisory Board on Pension Reform, the Assembly voted in favor of contributing to the retirement rate of 25% of those who applied in advance ‘n las AFP y que su jubilación se calcule con base al balancing remaining; the facility to take care of their belongings in case of terminal illnesses and the non-payment of the nationality for salvadorans that resides in the extranjero to opt for the balance of his ahoros.
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While the rest of the current legislature, Suazo is likely to deliver some other point changes to the short term, but it is likely that he will be fired so that the governor can not use the workers’ barriers; while Zablah denies that the commission’s work was detained for “false will and quorum” for session.
Avila explained that the only form of the series would be to reform the pension rate in order to reduce the 40% that the governing body had to pay for the money from the arrears, but considered that the problem was not a public or private system. that there are competitive bags that generate good interest for workers.
Pero advised that there was an “arrangement” for the governor’s talks with the IMF. “As the one who cares about pensions, so is peligrosísimo, this governess has entered into a liquidity, because he was in a state of disillusionment, he maliciously resorted to, he used all the force of the State for propagandistic themes”, lamentov.
Suazo said that the FMLN was looking for a place to go to the commission that coffers the AFP. In addition to the reforms implemented by Hacienda the solution is not that it is a public or private entity, but that the administration of the arrears is managed by the workers and pensioners mainly.