In a decision that generated controversy, since she was one of the few voices that harshly criticized Kirchner’s decision to move 280 employees to a permanent plant, Senator Carolina Losada (UCR-Santa Fe) appointed his sister Georgina as temporary staff in his office in the upper house with category A-1, the highest in the legislative ranks.
The information was confirmed to THE NATION by the legislator herself, who defended the appointment and attributed the disclosure of the news to a retaliation for her questioning of the expansion of the permanent plant arranged by the administrative secretary of the Senate, Maria Luz Alonsoright hand of Cristina Kirchner in handling the upper house.
“It is natural that they do this type of thing when someone stands against corruption, as I did in the last session, and tells them to their faces what they are and protests against moving people to a permanent plant,” Losada stated. “This is the return of the stale and corrupt politics of Kirchnerism before transparent people who want to make a different country,” he added.
The legislator was one of the few voices in the Senate who criticized the incorporation of 280 employees to the staff of permanent workers of the Senate, when the Executive Power had announced the freezing of income to the public administration, news that revealed THE NATION last September 18. Among those who benefited from that measure were several Kirchnerist militants, including Gabriel Graves, one of the vice president’s private secretaries.
“They are going to say that they are employees who were already working, but it is transferring employees to a permanent plant. This Kirchnerism does not surprise me, it is a way of stealing from the people, enlarging the State”, losada had said at that time.
Now, the senator from Santa Fe justified the appointment of her sister in her office. “She is my trusted person and she is more than qualified for the position,” she said, after which she highlighted that she has a degree in international relations and that she is close to becoming a lawyer. “My sister works with me from day zero, it was never a secret”added and differentiated the designation of the passes arranged by the management of Cristina Kirchner by ensuring that she will respect the condition of temporary staff. “Those who came with me, leave with me because I am against leaving people in the State,” Losada sentenced.which has a mandate until December 2027.
In addition, the legislator stressed that refused to use the quota of employees that would correspond to her to designate as vice president of the Senatea position he has held since last February.
“As vice president of the Senate they offered me an extra structure and I didn’t want it because I think it’s not necessary,” she remarked.
According to the Senate website, georgina losada It is designated as a transitory plant in the office of its sister with category A-1, the highest in the legislative hierarchy.
According to the data released by the unions after the last parity, With the latest increases, that category would receive a gross salary of just over $491,000. In her discharge before LA NACION, Senator Losada said that her sister earns “much less” than that figure.
The appointment of relatives in the offices is common currency, both in the Senate and in the Chamber of Deputies.
In fact, Among the people that Kirchnerism passed to the permanent plant last July is Diego Almirón, brother of former Kirchnerist senator Ana Almirón (Currents). After the conclusion of her mandate, in December of last year, the militant of La Cámpora managed to locate her relative in the office of Juliana Di Tullio (Buenos Aires), where she currently has the category A- 3.