The march of the development of social policies during 18 years of the Bolivarian Revolution has allowed to consecrate the social State of Law and Justice with various mechanisms to continue strengthening the protection of all the people, said the constituent Gladys Requena.
«In times of Constituent we are going to establish in the new Constitution new approaches regarding the issue of pensions,» she confirmed in an interview made on Friday in the «Encendidos» (Turned On) program, on Venezolana de Televisión.
It meant the social criterion through which the people have been reached with the social policies that are now systematized through the «Carnet de la Patria» (Homeland Card), which has made possible to achieve important conquests such as the case of pensions granted, which only in 2017 reached 480,000 through the Great Mission in a Greater Love, more than 1,500,000 pensioners.
«Commander Hugo Chávez vindicated the right of a working people to obtain their pension in another automatic way, but also generated a Social State of Law and Justice for people who did not have contributions to social security and created the Great Mission in a Greater Love , a way of touching a people that was unthinkable that could count on a pension and that was worked out», as the case of the housewives whose work is recognized as an added value,» and the president «Nicolás Maduro has safeguarded that legacy of Chávez, » she said.
In the country more than three million Venezuelans are pensioners, in addition about 90% of the population has pending with this homologated income with the minimum wage and the goal of the National Government is to reach 100% of pensioners and for that is working directly through the Carnet de la Patria system.
«New challenges has the revolution, to build a scenario of social peace, political peace, institutional peace, to continue to advance in management and in terms of pensions, for example, to reach 100% of pensioners, so we can continue to pay that social debt, because before during the Fourth Republic 19 of every 100 Venezuelans were entitled to the pension, today 93 of every 100 have a pension, we barely have a remaining 7% to finish covering», said the constituent.
