Congress approves pension reform proposed by the Government

Congressmen from different parties criticized this Friday the way in which the project was approved, since the House did not debate the content but rather voted on the same proposal that had already been accepted by the Senate.

For this reason, the pension reform should not be reconciled but will go directly to presidential sanction to become law.

Representative Caterine Juvinao, of the Green Alliance party, stated: “they are forcing us to vote with a single proposal presented by the Historical Pact, by government congressmen, that the pension reform not be debated in the Chamber but that we simply vote on the text that is approved in the Senate.”

“If this proposition is approved (as it happened), the debate is over. It is as if the House had debated and voted yes to everything that the Senate said and that’s it, the pension reform is now approved,” Juvinao added in a video broadcast on I live for their social networks.

Representative Christian Garcés, of the opposition Democratic Center party, wrote on his networks: “The Petrista pension reform is approved regardless of the fact that they will spend the savings from Colombians’ work as they wish and will leave young people without a pension, unless they increase the retirement age and the weeks of contributions”.