2024-08-15 20:56:59
While the Senate is about to approve pension restructuring, Opposition challenges government again in House of Representatives, The new transitional alliance between UCR, Unión por la Patria and Miguel Pichetto Group successfully approved on Thursday morning a project to update university operating expenses and teaching salaries national.
If passed, the law would force the executive branch to review the project and discuss the fiscal surplus that Javier Milley defended again this Wednesday. “Zero deficit is a commandment,” The president confirmed the news at the Inter-American Council and announced that he would “redesign the way the budget is written” and would submit the budget on September 15.
The semi-approval of the university program rejected by La Libertad Avanza and PRO is a point in favor of radicalism, which first forced its inclusion in the agenda and then managed to get Kirchnerism to put aside its own views to accommodate this University of California River Bin branch. The initiative is Passed by a majority vote: 143 in favor, 77 against, and 1 abstention.
This item orders the executive department to update the budget item every two months based on the CPI (Consumer Price Index) to cover operating expenses from January 1 to December 31 this year.
in turn, Mandatory restructuring of teaching and non-teaching salaries in the university system from December 1, 2023 until the month the law is enacted, based on the cumulative change in inflation during that period. Moreover, it provides for monthly adjustments, also based on the Consumer Price Index, from the month after the standard is approved through the end of the year. If there is a joint agreement, it will be respected and these parameters will not be bound.
While the financial impact of the proposal has yet to be calculated, activists warn that faculty salaries are the largest component of university budgets. Their delay rate is 30% (teachers) and 26% (non-teachers) Based on OPC (Office of Congressional Budget) accumulated budget execution reports through July, in real terms.
“The budget costs and increases to the intelligence services (which we plan to reject) are similar to the YPF guidelines that the government itself proposes to scrap,” Deputy Martin Taitaz told the meeting, adding: “We also need to balance the budget, But our priorities are different from those of the government.
Instead, José Luis Espert, chairman of the ruling party’s budget and finance committee, insisted that the government Milei ‘is supporting and sustaining higher education’ and provided the number. According to the specification, transfers to universities in 2023 are P1.4 billion, compared with the current budget credit of P3 billion in 2024, “or 120 percent, which is 10 percentage points higher than the government’s estimated inflation rate for 2024.”
The approved project also provides for a gradual expansion of the amount and number of beneficiaries of student scholarships each year, but no targets are set. Finally, it shows The AGN (Audit General National Office) must conduct an audit and immediately sent to Congress for follow-up. Remarkably, La Libertad Avanza also rejected the article.
The initiative’s bylaws were the result of lengthy and intense negotiations between representatives. In order for the UCR ruling to prevail, Opposition repeats same moves already made on retirement issue: He first let the opinions of the Fatherland Alliance and the Liberal Alliance fail along with the PRO, and finally voted for radicalism.
Only one article was rejected because the coalition voted against it: Article 7, which establishes a mechanism for the allocation of funds. Among all remaining points, UCR, Kirchnerism and the Federal Conference agreeand joined other provincial units. Danya Tavela, a representative from the Martín Lousteau district, led the negotiations on behalf of UCR.
“UCR’s proposed National College Financing Act has received broad support and semi-endorsement from lawmakers, which is very positive. "I’m committed to working to get it passed into law in the Senate," In a publication shared by Emiliano Yacobitti, Vice-Rector of the University of Buenos Aires, the views of the senator and president of the Centennial Party were highlighted.
In the House of Lords, however, it was longer: Once the documents are received, they must be processed by the committee.and seven regulatory days must pass between the signing of the opinion and its processing on the premises. By then, the 2025 budget line items (which should include amounts for the university) will be ready to be abandoned.
Likewise, the Senate is awaiting a vote on the retirement mobility program that Milley has threatened to veto. A meeting scheduled for this week has been postponed to next week, with the opposition trying to secure another two-thirds vote that would make the law immune to the possibility of a presidential veto.
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