2023-12-14 21:28:44
In times where national and provincial politics proclaim austerity and cuts in the State, a resolution that It was approved in the Deliberative Council of Aluminé leaves the town of Neuquén in the eye of the storm. Six of the seven councilors authorized a more than double increase in their diet by which an councilor will go from 500 thousand pesos to more than one million.
The project was approved in the last session of 2023 and had the approval of the councilors of the Neuquén Popular Movement (MPN): Brigid Caitru (Chairwoman), Maximiliano Aguado, Monica Luengo y Martín Mariñanco. Two councilors also voted affirmatively. Community: Roxana Melo and Adolfo Tobares (brother of Jorge Tobares, Minister of the Government of Neuquén).
Luciana Navarro of the Frente de Todos was the only councilor who opposed the increase. In dialogue with RÍO NEGRO Diary He considered the increase “excessive and unjustified.”
«We obviously have to receive a salary, like everyone, but what was approved does not consider “the economic context that the entire country, the province and our town are experiencing”he explained.
With the new scheme, a councilor of Aluminé will receive $1,130,376.86widely surpassing the $571.519,45 that the councilors received from the previous period. While The president of the local legislative house will have a salary of $1,321,219.75.
The resolution presented in office by the Government, Finance, Budget and Regulation Commission argued the change to «it is necessary to establish the basics» using the mayor’s salary as a parameter. In this way, the new values that they will perceive The representatives of each block reach 77% of the salary of the communal chief and 90% in the case of the presidency of the Deliberative.
Navarro announced that he is finding out the legal tools to propose a return and that he is consulting on ways to redistribute his salary. «I think it is important to invite the population to learn more about what happens within the Deliberative Council, “That this shameful thing that just happened serves to inform the neighbor, because we are representatives of the people and this does not have to happen,” said the representative of the Frente de Todos.
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