The governor of La Rioja, Ricardo Quintelaconfirmed that in July the Debt Cancellation Bonds (Bocade) will begin to circulate in the province and detailed that the first to receive part of their salaries in local currency will be the highest-ranking officials.
“In the month of July the circulation of the Debt Cancellation Bonds. The first to receive part of their salary in this way will be the highest-ranking officials; governor, vice governor, ministers, secretaries and undersecretaries will receive 100 thousand pesos of their total salary with BOCADE, while the general directors will receive 50 thousand pesos,” the provincial president said on social networks.
The provincial quasi-currency is named after “El Chacho”, in honor of the leader Ángel Vicente Peñaloza. Quintela justified the issuance of the Rioja currency under the argument that it is a “forced” measure in the face of “the cruelty of the adjustment” applied by the national government.
In this sense, the Riojan governor asked the Judicial and Legislative Function and members of the Court of Accounts to implement the same measure with officials, deputies and judges of the TSJ.
“For the rest of the workers, in the month of August we will make the single payment of a Bonus of 50 thousand pesos that will be paid in BOCADE,” he said.
On the other hand, Quintela reported that the province will grant “an increase in the settlement of the Complementary Annual Salary that will be paid in the month of July, adding non-remunerative items that were previously excluded from the workers’ SAC.”
The project of the Rioja ruling party to create the Bocade had been approved on January 18 in the local Legislature.
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