( Spanish) – The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, vetoed the university financing law because he considered that it does not “consider the fiscal impact of the measure nor does it determine the source of its financing,” according to the decree published this Wednesday by the Presidency of Argentina. The Executive’s decision was made after the massive protest in support of the initiative approved by both Chambers of Congress.
The law, which will return to Congress after this veto, seeks to declare the budgetary emergency of the national university system in the 2024 budget year in the context of the increase in the costs of essential goods and services in the country where more than half of the population lives in conditions of economic vulnerability, according to official data.
“The inconvenience arises from the fact that having the same operating expenses as in 2023, the prices of 2024 do not give any respite,” as stated in the document issued by the Senate and Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Nation, when it was approved. the law.
The veto decision was repeatedly defended by Milei and ratified in a statement on Wednesday, in the midst of the mobilization to Congress called by students, teaching and non-teaching unions and social movements in support of the law. The president said that the project was irresponsible and assured that his Government is committed to the universities, but also to the effort to recover economic prosperity. He added that the appropriate place to discuss financing is the debate on the 2025 National Budget.
Among the demands of those attending the demonstration were a salary increase for teachers and financing at the national level. “This Government is unsustainable, it does not look towards us, towards the university, towards education, towards the progress of our country,” one of the protesters told this Wednesday.
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