2023-06-28 22:24:11
At the beginning of the electoral campaign, Cristina Kirchner and Sergio Massa agreed to grant the workers of the National Congress a salary increase of almost 120%, which would be replicated in allowances for deputies and senators, and which represents an official reference for negotiations. parity.
The Association of Legislative Personnel (APL), the Association of State Workers (ATE) and the Union of Civil Personnel of the Nation (UPCN) celebrated the improvement, which will materialize in three tranches: 35% as of July 1; 35%, as of August 1; and 20%, as of November 1.
The cumulative rise amounts to 120%, double the already unrealistic inflationary guideline that the national government drafted in the Budget for this year.
Everything indicates that the same percentage of increase will be transferred to the salaries of legislators, but until Wednesday night that definition was still open. It is that the head of the Senate and the pair of Deputies of her, the massista Cecilia Moreau, must sign the joint resolution that establishes the increase for employees.
To data from March of this year, a national deputy received, between diet and representation expenses, 994,437 pesos. To this must be added the supplement for uprooting received by those who have domiciles more than 100 kilometers from the Federal Capital.
The updating of deputies and senators was historically linked to the agreements that define the parliamentary unions, where the APL led by Norberto Di Próspero has the greatest representation.
During the coronavirus pandemic, Cristina Kirchner and Sergio Massa imposed another criterion so that any salary increase in quotas be resolved through a vote in the venue, but this provision was never put into practice and finally in November of last year the article of the parliamentary regulation.
Internally, the increase did not calm things down because many legislative workers warn that this has widened the gap between the lowest and highest incomes. Namely, the initial gross salary will go from $161,578.30 to $354,473.68, while the gross for the highest positions will go from $569,132.72 pesos to $1,245,795.20.
“There should be a criterion by which the minor categories have higher increases, but it seems to me that the level of claim and the level of inflation exceeded that possibility of reaching a more supportive agreement,” they complained in the halls of Congress.
Beyond the internal interpretations, the increase promoted by Cristina Kirchner and Massa (through Moreau) constitutes an outward reference, in line with the Kirchnerism slogan of propping up the recovery of purchasing power. This guideline was determined by the Vice President herself in one of her many diatribes once morest the management of Alberto Fernández.
Although it is behind the inflation projected by private analysts (the last Market Survey carried out by the Central Bank anticipated that prices might end the year with an accumulated jump of 148.9%), the increase in Congress stimulates wage negotiations for improve expectations.
For the government coalition Unión por la Patria (UP) and in particular for Minister Massa who became the presidential candidate on the unity list, it is key to improve social humor and, it is known, a first step is to lighten the pocket.
In this sense, another outstanding element of the increase in Congress is that the largest items are awarded in the run-up to the Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory Primary elections (PASO), the first instance in which the ruling party must expose its potential.
And as Cristina Kirchner has already said, the great challenge of the formula headed by Massa is to achieve the necessary performance so as not to be left out of a possible second round.
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