“I present to you Jaime and Carolina”, when Duque criticized the minimum wage



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In social networks some trills have been circulating that account for the opinion that the then senator and current president Iván Duque had about the minimum wage in Colombia andWhere criticized the economic policy of the government of Juan Manuel Santos.

They also remind President Duque of the campaign promise to increase the minimum wage during his tenure if he were to be elected.

President Duque announced on Tuesday that the minimum wage for 2021 will be increased by 3.5% and set at 908,526 pesos, plus a transportation aid of 106,454 pesos.

The president pointed out that the increase in the current legal monthly minimum wage (smmlv) and transportation “It is more than double the inflation by the end of 2020”.

This is because, according to the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE), the variation of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) until November was 1.23%.



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