The UCR bloc seeks to incorporate the demands of Peronism for its pension project for retirees. Debate postponed over educational financing.
After the news of the salary update of deputiesthe members of the Lower House move forward with a debate that involves a new pension system for retirees. If the opposition blocs do not agree, the Government would emerge victorious and its regime imposed by decree would be maintained. There were no matches to try budget emergency for universities and the National Teacher Incentive Fund (FONID).
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The beginning of the session – which had privilege motions for five hours – included a request for the Minister Sandra Pettovello appears in the House to be questioned by the distribution of food to canteensbut it was denied due to the majority abstention of the UCR and federal blocks. It is precisely these two spaces that have the majority support initiative to establish a new retirement formulawhich replaces the pension formula imposed by decree by Javier Milei, combining the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the Average Taxable Remuneration of Stable Workers (RIPTE).
However, the new Integrated retirement and pension system has opinions from different blocks with very few variables, with the exception of the rejection of Freedom Advances and the PRO. Union for the Homeland expressed his intention to accompany the radicalism’s proposal on retirement benefits – of which they only reject the use of Sustainability Guarantee Fund for the payment of pension debts – but did not reach agreements for its project on university financing and FONIDwhich could be discussed on July 3, at the request of the UCR.
“Our objective is to deal with an urgent issue such as retirement incomewhich have been losing very strongly in recent months and suffered the shock of the Government’s adjustment“, said the Mendoza deputy for this medium. Lisandro Nieri (UCR), who added: “We came to look for that, without adding complexities that could hinder approval.” The legislator would be the author of a ruling that is already in the Peronist offices so that, if agreed, he would receive half a sanction tonight.
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Deputies raise their salaries and will earn more than $2.2 million
The Chamber of Deputies tThere will be an adjustment that would be around 80% in their diets, parliamentary sources confirmed to Ámbito. The increase will be in three installments in the coming months and would be the first since November. The agreement was made a week after the increase that the members of the group received in their allowances. Senate of the Nationand it would be made official in a session that plans to discuss a new retirement system and the university budget emergency.
From this increase, the deputies they will begin to perceive more than $2.2 million. The legislators received $1.2 million per month and requested an update in their diets, mainly those from the provinces who argued the need for cover hotel and rental expenses in the city of Buenos Aires on session days.
Although since Casa Rosada insists on freezing the assets of the parliamentary bodyand in gestures they propose initiatives to roll back the increases that are ultimately not addressed in the legislative sphere, the lack of regulations that establish parameters for salary increases ends up enabling the discretionary items agreed upon by the deputies and? Martin Menempresident of that Chamber, would authorize by resolution to avoid a vote in the chamber.
