2024-04-22 16:01:00
The President’s Spokesman, Manuel AdorniHe confirmed today that the Government had reached an agreement with the university authorities to increase the budget in two parts, and he considered that the march requested tomorrow would be “motivated by politics“.
“On Thursday there was a dialogue and an agreement. The Government increased spending items by 70% in March, there will be another 70% in May and an extraordinary item was established for university hospitals,” said the national official in his usual press conference from Casa Rosada.
“This turns the march into a politically motivated one.. I’m not saying it’s not serious about the students, what they do and the claims they consider to be true. We don’t think it’s true that these kinds of questions are encouraged from a desk,” he said, adding: “We will always defend the students, their right to get an education and have a future in Argentina; “It’s the only reason we’re here.”
Last week, and was consulted about the Government’s proposal, the deputy rector of the UBA, Emiliano Yacobitti, He clarified that “the motion does not solve anything.” “After more than a month of demands, they were told that they would only give a 70% increase to operating costs since they started in March. The teachers are a separate chapter.”
The support of Kirchnerism, the CGT, a sector of the UCR and the Civic Coalition is mobilizing the university to the Congress and the Plaza de Mayo, which was requested 3:30 pm Later, the UBA released an institutional video with this message that follows: “They think we are sleeping. That we see the other way. That differences weaken us. pity Because accepting those who think differently is something unique. Let’s take care of the things that unite us.”
Adorni, in another excerpt from the press conference, also referred to the controversial session in which the senators voted for a salary increase. “They are legislative debates. Apart from agreeing or not, it was quite clear that we are part of the society that We don’t want to see that kind of embarrassing shows.“, he declared, and concluded: “It was unfortunate for us, even the shape. There are no people in our space who favor what was done and the way it was done. “It limited the unpleasantness and much more the way to protect it.”
Also, and when he was asked about the changes in the ranks in certain areas of the Cabinet, he denied that this meant a further increase in public expenditure and explained that they were administrative corrections. “There is not a single peso that changes public spending. Today salaries are frozen indefinitely”, in progress.
last thursday, Senators took 50 seconds to vote (and approve) a draft resolution on tables that implied an increase in allowances. It was done by a show of hands, so there was no record, beyond the images, of who voted in their favor. Therefore, the salaries in the hands of the legislators will exceed,. since June, from $1.7 million to more than $4 million.
This resolution created a strong social unrest. Also on a political level, especially from President Javier Milei, who sharply criticized the senators. Less than 24 hours later, the bloc La Libertad Avanza announced that it will present its bill to roll back the increase in legislators’ diets.
“We did not need the raise formally by the volunteers. Mine was a clear demonstration at the previous parliamentary working meeting. We didn’t want the rise and what this means, because it goes against everything we say,” said the head of the ruling bloc, Ezekiel attachmentand he pointed out that the presentation of the new project is in such a way that “the increase in allowances is not implemented and the resolution” validated in the room is suspended.
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