“They will know how to appreciate the efforts of Congress”: Petro celebrated approval of the pension reform

President Gustavo Petro’s pension reform has already passed its third debate in Congress. You will now advance to the plenary session of the House of Representativeswhere it must submit its last debate before next June 20 to be approved in its entirety.

Thus, the project is just one step away from passing its process in Congressafter this Thursday afternoon the Seventh Committee of the House of Representatives approved the 95 articles and the title and the question of the pension reform.

Among what was approved, The contribution threshold in Colpensiones was maintained at 2.3 minimum wages and the validity of the initiative that the Senate plenary approved, that is, July 2025. All this, despite the forecasts that indicated that congressmen would seek a threshold of 1.3 salaries and that the validity would be in 2026.

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So things are, The Government managed to get the project donewhich advanced without major problems in its first debate in the House and in what was its third meeting in Congress.

In this regard, President Gustavo Petro congratulated the Seventh Commission of the Chamber for approving the pension reform. And he noted that as a result “millions of elderly men and women without a pension today will know how to thank” the approval.

Furthermore, he indicated that this “congressional effort” occurs in the midst of a complex panorama and in the midst of a Legislature “attacked by crime.”