While awaiting regulatory approvals to pass to the Executive Branch, the debate of the labor reform It is still on the discussion table while it is on hold in the Chamber of Deputies.
As time passes, the expectation of whether this will be approved as is, without new modifications, it increases.
As a calming effect, the vice president of the Republic, Raquel Peña assured that all discussions and agreements related to the labor code They were carried out based on the result of a consensus and in this decisive section it would not be different either.
“Everything we have approved has been based on the result of a consensus and now it will not be different,” he indicated.
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Raquel Peña: Approval of the labor code
He explained that, although he holds various meetings with the parties involved to reach the highest degree of consensusIn the end, the main objective will be to mostly benefit the country’s workers so that “every day they can have more achievements in their working conditions”, without leaving aside the business community.
In that sense, the president of the Senate, Ricardo de los Santosadded that there will always be room for dialogue with the willingness to listen to all sectors to achieve the best possible result.
There will always be room for dialogue. The Chamber of Deputies He is taking the steps he must take and we have to be open to listen to all sectors. “A good product is going to come out,” he predicted.
Meanwhile, he explained that they are only waiting for the document to reach the legislative body to decide what to do.
Tax reform
On the other hand, and pending the population’s rejection of the government’s fiscal measures, Peña guaranteed that “there will be no tax reform”; In addition, he mentioned that the current geopolitical scenario impacts the country in one way or another.
In this way, he explained that in the national budget, the barrel of oil was initially concentrated in 66 dollars and now the price is above 88 dollars.
“That of course has an impact, but we have been addressing these situations and applying a series of specific subsidies; we have managed the price of fuel, that is how it is and we will continue working,” he said.
Within everything described, the second in command maintained that the priority will be to protect the most vulnerable so that, as far as possible, they are not impacted in this international conflict.
