The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, obtained the necessary votes in the Legislature this Wednesday (9) to maintain his veto of the law that provides for readjustments in the financing of public universities, which had been approved by Congress.
The score in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies was 160 votes in favor of the law, 84 against and five abstentions. To overturn the veto, the opposition to the libertarian government would need two-thirds of the votes in favor of the law, six more than it obtained.
The law vetoed by Milei with the ratification of the Chamber provided for updating the 2024 budgets for universities, increasing teachers’ salaries since December in line with inflation and for the values of scholarships to be increased annually.
A week ago, thousands of people took to the streets of Buenos Aires and other Argentine cities to demonstrate in favor of the approved financing system. On the same day, however, Milei published a decree vetoing the law.
In response to the ratification of the veto by the Legislature, the National Universities Union Front, which brings together teaching and non-teaching university workers, announced a 24-hour strike this Thursday (10). “The popular will has been defrauded,” the union said in a statement, asserting that the national government is governing by decree.
Milei’s party, Freedom Advances, celebrated the ratification. “We want to thank all the deputies who placed the interests of the country above the irresponsibility of the hypocrisy of those who founded the country. Today we are facing a new defeat for the State party”, wrote the acronym on the social network X.
Casa Rosada claims not to be against the demand for a larger budget for public education, but claims that there are no resources for the application of the sanctioned law, and has already stated that it will veto it.
“The government is in favor of improving university financing and we understand that the fhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5psRU2OFVagorma for this is in the discussion of the national budget and no other. As long as the result of the budget increase maintains our fiscal balance, we will never have any problems with this”, said Milei’s spokesman, Manuel Adorni.
The current administration also said that the legislators who had approved the law needed to explain where they would get the resources for the increases they proposed.” “We need to know what they intend to cut to pay for these increases”, said the spokesperson last week.
The Argentine University Federation, however, says that the approved law would require 0.14% of GDP and would provide budgetary predictability to the educational system, as well as a response to workers’ wage gaps in the face of annual inflation of almost 240% in 12 months. .
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