2024-03-12 01:42:37
By express request of Javier Mileyfinally the vice president Victoria Villarruel agreed this Monday followingnoon to accompany with his signature the resolution that provides roll back the 30% increase in legislators’ allowances. The vice president resisted freezing the salaries of senators
The resolution had already been signed on Friday by the president of the Chamber of Deputies, the libertarian Martin Menem. But for political reasons, Villarruel had made it known that he would not support the decision. He endured the pressure from the Casa Rosada for two days.
The Government is involved in a scandal over the salaries of senior officials following the 48% increases that Miley himself, Villarruel and the rest of his Cabinet had this month.
The President received a salary of $4,068,738.23 in January, while in February it became $ 6.025.801,32. Villarruel received $3,767,339.40 in January and in February it increased to $ 5.579.429,66.
Finally, the Government canceled those increases. As fusiblethe President fired this Monday during a television interview with the Secretary of Labor, Omar Yasinwhom he blamed for salary increases in the Executive Branch.
But in the middle the dispute remained open with Victoria Villarruel, who He refused to lower the senators’ allowances. With the raises now rescinded, their salaries would climb to regarding $2.5 million.
In the introduction of the resolution signed by Villarruel and Menem and which was announced this Monday at dusk, it speaks of the “deep crisis that the Argentine economy is going through as a result of the bad policies of the last 20 years” and that this “makes necessary the salary recomposition of all workers in different sectors of our national economy”.
It is then explained that, within this framework, on February 22, a joint agreement was signed with the legislative staff unions. That agreement stipulated a 30% salary increase for Congressional employees.
In the resolution, Villarruel and Menem defined what is to leave without effect a 2011 administrative decision signed by then vice president Amado Boudou and the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Julián Domínguez, which hooks up automatically the increases in the salaries of legislative staff that are agreed on in parity with the allowances received by deputies and senators.
In private, the president of Deputies took credit for signing the joint resolution: “If I didn’t advance and press, I wouldn’t come out”Menem told his collaborators.
Villarruel’s arguments
The vice president I refused to turn back with the increases in diets for a series of reasons. They spoke of an interference by the Executive Branch (due to the President’s demand that deputies and senators lower their salaries) in the Legislative Branch, of the real loss of purchasing power of senators’ salaries in the face of high inflation and that Even the Government had granted raises to its officials, a decision that was finally reviewed this Monday.
The decision not to increase the diets generates irritation among the senators. And that is precisely what Villarruel would need the least: in the Senate the ruling party has an enormous weakness and Peronism is the first minority, with 33 senators of its own (just 4 missing for a quorum).
Faced with pressure from the opposition, Villarruel finally will call a special session for this Thursday to discuss Milei’s controversial mega reform decree. In Peronism -and also in the dialogue opposition and in the ruling party itself- They say that there will be a quorum and that the votes are there to approve the rejection of the DNU.
If it happens, it will be a blow for La Rosada: no sitting president has ever had a decree voted once morest.
For that session, Peronism plans to have a card up its sleeve: if it has the number required by the regulations to deal with projects without commission clearance – two-thirds of the senators -, it will seek to advance with a project for co-participation of the Tax. Check, something very resisted by Rosada.
Senators of the Peronist bloc. Photo: Federico López Claro.And something else would be added following the resolution to roll back the increases in allowances: some also propose treating a project by the Peronist senator on tables Jose Mayans to equate the salaries of the three Powers of the State, extrapolar bodies, decentralized bodies of the National Public Administration and State companies and companies. The initiative talks regarding “equity.”
Mayans proposes setting a maximum limit on the receipt of salaries of the highest authorities of the national public sector. He establishes that remunerations cannot exceed 20 minimum wages “for all reasons.” For lower-ranking officials, the project stipulates the equivalent of 15 minimums. As of this month, the minimum wage is $202,800.
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