The blocks of the opposition They start to stand out of the ruling party. After the debate on the Omnibus Law and the tax reform, the deputies begin to “dust off” their own agendas in order to advance own themes That so far Freedom Advances has been relegating.
Thus, and before the venue votes on a position that shows that the opposition forces the ruling party to discuss, the libertarian José Luis Espert, In his role as president of the Budget Commission, he called on the deputies to debate this Wednesday, from 4 p.m., the projects that seek to implement by law a new retirement mobility formula.
The Government ordered decree a new mobility formula for retirements and discussion with the blocks opponents It was not only raised because it was done by decree -and not by law-, but because of the “splicing” formula that they applied, in which retirement benefits lost a good part of the inflation of the first two months of this year.
The Welfare and Social Security Commission that commands the radical Gabriela Brouwer de Koning He quickened his pace and finished the treatment with three opinions. The majority is Union for the Homeland which, with 13 signatures, proposes maintaining the formula that combines RIPTE and ANSeS collection on a quarterly basis. Additionally, it adds monthly amounts adjusted for inflation and establishes a 30% increase in splicing.
He second opinion It is from the blocks of the UCR and HCF which sets the total basic basket and CPI adjustment as a floor for retirement. The splicing increases the percentage by 8.1% that the Government granted, which was 12.5% in order to reach 20.6% of January inflation.
Latest opinion is the one of the Left, which proposes that retirement be at least the equivalent of Basic Basket for the Elderly and updateable by inflation or salary mobility (RIPTE). Seeks to impose 82% mobile.
“We are going to seek to rule next week. “The idea is to move forward,” recognized Infobae a member of the Civic Coalition. “We are going to put together a strategy to make that happen,” he added.
According to the Budget Office of the National Congress, in the case of the formula of the Decree of Necessity and Urgency 274/24, expenditures as a percentage of GDP would be 6.49% and 7.14% if the granting of bonuses is considered every month of the year); that is, 0.30 percentage points (pp) more than in the scenario of Law 27,609 (+0.31 pp in pension benefits, -0.03 pp in family allowances11 and +0.03 pp in PNC).
The rest of the formulas raise the cost to around 9% of GDP, so the national government will seek to block it.
The university budgets were going to be discussed in the same commission, but an agreement with the UCR and the PRO stopped this and established a discussion schedule in the Education commission.
After a meeting that lasted almost three hours, Alejandro Finocchiaropresident of the Education Commission, announced a work schedule that foresees two information meetings for May 7 and 14. Although he did not make it clear if it would actually be ruled that week as requested by Unión por la Patria.
From the beginning of the meeting, both Peronism and the left and the Federal Innovation bloc pressured for a ruling to be signed as quickly as possible and then for the project to be turned over to the budget committee. Where the libertarians and their PRO allies have a majority and can stop the opposition advance.
Deputy Ferraro also proposed that the commission summon the current Undersecretary of University Policies, Alejandro Alvarezto present the Government’s position next week.
With this, the ruling party, together with the PRO, managed to contain the advance led by Maximiliano Ferraro of the Civic Coalition who pressed for a ruling.
