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Most Parties Confront the Voice of the People Initiative to Introduce a Property Tax
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Representatives of eight parties or lists unanimously announced at a public debate organized by the Voice of the People initiative that they would raise guaranteed pensions to at least above the poverty threshold. Most of them support a wealth tax and a referendum in which citizens would decide on NATO membership.
Although it is made with “legs”, the opposition in the Senate will vote in favor of the presidential initiative to limit the pensions of senior government officials, they advanced in interviews conducted prior to the Political Coordination Board.Ricardo Anaya, coordinator of the PAN bench, said that the vote will be in favor because it is indefensible that there are former officials with pensions of up to one million pesos.“The initiative is mad…
Senators question exclusions in the initiative The federal government's proposal to reduce the high pensions paid in Luz y Fuerza del Centro y Petróleos Mexicanos advanced in committees of the Mexican Senate, where it was unanimously approved, although opposition legislators expressed disagreements with the content of the initiative. [...] The article Advances reform on high pensions first appeared in: 88.9 News.
Senate: Committees approve reform to Article 127 so that no pension for appointed officials can exceed 50% of the president's salary. Regeneración, […] The entry Senate advances reform to cap golden pensions was first published on RegeneraciónMX.
Unanimously, the joint committees of Constitutional Points and Legislative Studies of the Senate approved reducing the pension of public officials to a maximum of 70,000 pesos, thus ending the so-called golden pensions. However, says the legislator of Citizen Movement, Alejandra... Full note »
Cd. of Mexico.- The opinion that limits the pensions of at least 6,297 former bureaucrats was unanimously endorsed in committees of the Senate of the Republic. The initiative states that retirements may not exceed 50 per cent of the net remuneration received by the President of the Republic today and will apply to decentralized agencies, public enterprises of the State, public trusts and development banks. The opinion adopted was given first rea…
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