Although they avoid calling it as such, the strike will paralyze various services and will include a concentration and a meeting in front of the Legislative Palace, just as the deputies plan to approve the articles of the retirement reform.

Public transport, State services, also Health (non-emergencies), among other activities, will be affected by the protests.

The PIT-CNT uses the argument that the current Social Security system is increasingly unaffordable, a reasoning shared by political organizations, unions and social movements, which consider that another “solidarity” reform is possible, an opinion shared even by parties related to the National Party, to which the president belongs.

Disputes and controversies took place in Parliament where the president himself, apparently reluctant, finally accepted.

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