From “heroes” to “villains”? Deputies who respond to northern governors distance themselves from Javier Milei’s veto

The Salteños come from supporting the Base Law and to abstain when the ruling party managed to maintain the veto of the retirement reform in the Deputies. This time, they would insult the Government and this hardening would respond to the lack of responses, or in homeopathic doses, from the Casa Rosada to the Governor Sáenz’s claims for funding cuts for public works, health, education and transportationamong others. The position communicated hours after the presidential veto would seek to block any attempt from Balcarce 50 that seeks to convince them to express themselves in the opposite direction. “We understand that this time they do not have the votes to sustain the veto and we expressed our votes beforehand to put pressure on those 87 deputies,” added the woman from Salta.

The representative, also a teacher at National University of Salta (UNSA)anticipated that a strategy to prevent the veto from being upheld would be for some parliamentarians to be absent on the day of the treatment. “If some deputies are absent, we can get two-thirds. It is a math game that we will know at that moment, in the chamber. That is why it is very important that we deputies demonstrate beforehand,” he concluded.

Indefinition

Nobody doubts that the Tucumán governor Osvaldo Jaldo He was the first Peronist leader to apply the chainsaw to the provincial budget and align himself with President Milei. Since then, he has maintained synchronized swimming with the Casa Rosada and the three Peronist deputies from the Independence Bloc who respond to him and distanced themselves from Unión por la Patria, they always voted on the side of the ruling party.

When the Retirement Reform law was discussed, Gladys Medina, Agustín Fernández and Elia Fernández de Mansilla They abstained from voting in favor so as not to be “stuck” to the opposition but later lifted Milei’s adjournment when they were part of the 87 “heroes” who prevented retirement mobility from becoming law, after the presidential veto. And they were at the celebration barbecue in Olivos.

This noon, at a press conference, Governor Jaldo expressed himself in favor of the Federal University March because “there is no doubt that universities need a larger budget because they are the trainers of future professionals in Tucumán, in Argentina and throughout the national territory.” But he put the emphasis on the audits of the use of the resources that the State allocates to the educational institutions: “We should not be bothered because they audit us or control the resources assigned to us.” Given the insistence on what the members of the Independence Bloc will do, he avoided speaking out. For inquiries of Scopeit was learned that in the next few hours, Jaldo will have a meeting with the three deputies to define a position that will not be made public, only in the session. It is not ruled out that they will once again opt for miss a hot sessionso they would go from being heroes to villains, according to a source.

In the case of Tucumanthe provincial government has a close relationship with the National University of Tucumán (UNT)through multiple mutual collaboration agreements and because they share the administration of Channel 10. The station, owned by the UNT and the one with the greatest penetration in Tucumán homes, has a board of directors of three members whose presidency is the only representative of the government. In recent days, at the request of Governor Jaldo, the Provincial Court of Accounts agreed to a request to carry out an audit of the station, with the objective of analyzing the last eight balance sheets presented by the state television station. This scenario generated some tension, which is why some define the relationship between the Government House and the UNT Rectorate as “frozen.”

In the last session of UNT Superior Councillast week, it was decided to declare a state of permanent alert, adhere to the document of the Council of Rectors (CIN) that called for the Federal March and in its recitals, the Tucumán university councilors urged the national deputies and senators who graduated from the public university to, if the presidential veto is confirmed, “uphold the University Financing Law in Congress and introduce reasonable modifications to the 2025 Budget bill to guarantee the university and scientific system the minimum and essential conditions for its operation. It will be seen which Tucumán parliamentarians listen to this claim.