“No. Any increase for retirees, or in this case the bonus, It will always be tied to the fiscal surplus and today the conditions are not met. “for that to happen,” said the La Libertad Avanza (LLA) official this Wednesday at his usual press conference.
The refusal of a new bonus comes after Congress approved the new retirement formula that, in the words of the Government itself, would break with the premise of zero fiscal deficit implemented since the beginning of the administration. The regulation, moreover, was vetoed by President Javier Milei after the explicit rejection of the Executive.
Retirees will march again today from Congress to Plaza de Mayo against Javier Milei’s veto
While the Government rejects the possibility of implementing a new bonus, retirees will march again this Wednesday from Congress to Plaza de Mayo to protest against the veto of Javier Milei to the law of retirement mobility.
The call was made by National Coordinating Board of Retired and Pensioner Organizations, made up of more than thirty retirement groups. Social organizations, unions, political groups and students will participate in the mobilization.
Among the organizations that confirmed their presence are the Autonomous CTA, the Union of Retired Workers in Struggle (UTJL), the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy (UTEP), the Evita Movement, the Movement of Excluded Workers (MTE), Barrios de Pie, the Polo Obrero, the Socialist Workers Movement (MST) and the MST-Teresa Vive.
The call is expected to be broader than last Wednesday’s, which was repressed with tear gas and batons by the security forces commanded by the Minister of Security Patricia Bullrich.
Deputies: Javier Milei’s veto of the retirement mobility law was entered
The Casa Rosada sent this Monday to the Chamber of Deputies Deputies veto the retirement mobility law which established an increase in pensions of 8.1%.
This increase in salaries will not be applied while decree 782, which applies the veto of Javier Milei signed last Friday and published today in the Official Gazette.
“I am pleased to send you attached hereto the Original Message No. 45/2024, which communicates the issuance of Decree No. 782/2024, by which the Bill registered under No. 27,756 is fully observed and returned,” stated the National Executive Branch in the note addressed to the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Martín Menem.
Source: Ambito
