The former president expressed his position in which he will accompany the ruling party with the rejection of the university budget law. The PRO bloc meets on Tuesday amid the division with support and rejection of the project.
Mauricio Macri This Sunday he published on social networks a sinuous reflection on universities ahead of Wednesday’s session in the Chamber of Deputies, where La Libertad Avanza will have to defend Javier Milei’s veto of the educational financing law.
“The defense of the public university, its free, free and democratic access, requires putting an end to the political use of university resources,” was the end of the message from the former president who also supported the audit of the universities that the national government is promoting. via Sandra Pettovello.
Veto on university financing: Mauricio Macri’s definition
Macri has just met privately with Santiago Caputo and in the midst of the expectation about how the PRO bloc would vote, there were crossed messages of all kinds in the yellow party. From Fernando de Andreis appealing to the fable of the scorpion and the frog, to Álvaro González anticipating that he would vote against the veto.
He left for the crossing today Diego Santilli to announce that he will support Milei’s veto. A message that arrived almost simultaneously with Macri’s post. The PRO bloc will thus arrive at its meeting on Tuesday virtually fractured due to the lack of a concrete definition of the party leadership.
Macri, president of the PRO, remained silent until today when he warned in his publication “that the UBA faces a crisis of transparency; since 2015 he has not presented a single invoice.” “The truth is that university autonomy is not being discussed here. Nor is access to the university or its operation being questioned. What is really in dispute is ‘theirs’: the part of the budget that is diverted towards politics,” he added.
Macri’s message seems to express tacit support for Milei’s veto but without issuing any order within Cristian Ritondo’s bloc. Absences, abstentions and crossed votes will be part of the landscape of Macriism in Wednesday’s session.
“For populism, all institutions are tools to accumulate power. That is why, when they were in government, they tried to take over justice, silence the media and corrupt universities by manipulating budgets. The consequences of that manipulation continue to this day. Money management continues to be opaque in many universities,” said Macri.
Source: Ambito
