The dialogue with the Pachakutik bench is scheduled for this Wednesday, although the bench expected to hold a meeting to adjust the agenda to be presented.
The Democratic Left and the Pachakutik bloc will go to dialogue with the President of the Republic, Guillermo Lasso, but with an agenda that includes red lines on tax and labor matters.
The official sector, represented in the National Agreement Bank (BAN), aspires to specify the legislative support of the ID and Pachakutik for the urgent projects that are announced from Carondelet, although it also leaves open the possibility that there will be conversations with the PSC and UNES .
Slow progress of the Legislative-Executive dialogue on the project Creating Opportunities
According to the legislator Francisco Jiménez (BAN), the important thing is that the serious problems that the country has in terms of security, economy and public services are faced through modern legislation; Well, he said that this is not the time for destabilization and marches, although everyone has the freedom to do so, but there are urgent problems that must be addressed, such as security. That is why the state of emergency decree was issued, he said.
Its co-chairman Juan Fernando Flores confirmed that there will be dialogues with the ID and Pachakutik, and that then there will be rapprochements with the PSC and UNES. He insisted that all political sectors must contribute so that it is the plenary who decides on the urgent projects that will be submitted in the coming days.
Flores was confident that the Government will achieve approval of urgent projects before the end of 2021. As planned, he said, the first project on tax reform would begin its process next Monday and would be approved until November 25; and, in parallel, the labor reform project will be sent, which aims to be approved until December 26.
In Pachakutik there is a predisposition to dialogue with the president, but Assemblyman Rafael Lucero pointed out that they will not go empty-handed, that they will reiterate the emergency issues in economic and labor matters. To do this, there will be meetings on the bench to define the roadmap, as he said: “We cannot sit down and talk with the President of the Republic without having a roadmap that includes topics on an agenda.”
He insisted that Pachakutik says Yes to dialogue, but in the meeting with the Executive, he will recall the parliamentary agenda approved last May, such as the reduction of the interest rate and red lines on labor matters.
For example, Assemblyman Salvador Quishpe spoke that they will propose to the Government to lower interest rates so that Ecuadorians can access loans at single-digit interest rates.
The representative of the ID Alejandro Jaramillo insisted on the formation of technical working tables with the Executive.
He stated that the ID has red lines on the tax issue. For this reason, they will propose that the tax base be redefined so that the people who earn more than $ 3,500 are the ones who contribute in this new bill, and thus not affect the middle class that earns $ 2,000, which are mostly the servers public.
In the tax contribution of people for the patrimony, that the value of the first family home and agricultural land is included for the calculation of the tax base.
Regarding labor, Jaramillo clarified that the ID is in favor of making more flexible hours and new contracting modalities, but without canceling labor rights, such as social security affiliation or that dismissals are allowed after the approval of new modalities of employment. hiring; or worse still, that they have to compensate the employer.
Ronny Aleaga, from the UNES bench, said that they hope that the new project will go hand in hand with what the Ecuadorian people need, which they will not support if the proposal includes an increase in taxes on the middle class.
The official Francisco Jiménez explained that the Opportunity Creation project will go to the Assembly with some observations on form and substance, but that basically the idea is the same: to reactivate the country’s economy and to do so through a clear focus on employment. .
Regarding the calculation of the progressive tables, some things will be rethought, for example, he added that the taxation on wealth will no longer be on natural persons, but on legal persons. (I)
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