When negotiating with the Government, the PRO sets the priorities of the governors and mayors as a condition.
He PRO He stated this Thursday that conditions its support for the 2025 Budget project, to the priorities of the governors and mayors, according to sources informed Scope. They did it after a meeting with the PRO executive board that was attended by Mauricio Macri and the provincial leaders belonging to the party.
“From the PRO, we conclude in the need to advance in the sanction of the 2025 Budget including these priorities of the governors and mayors as a condition“, they stated to Scope sources who participated in the executive board meeting.
In addition to the current president of the PRO, Mauricio Macrithe governors participated Ignacio Torres (Chubut), Jorge Macri (CABA) and Rogelio Frigerio (Entre Ríos), the mayors Soledad Martinez (Vicente López) and Guillermo Montenegro (General Pueyrredón), the national deputies Cristian Ritondo, Diego Santilli and María Eugenia Vidaland Fernando De Andreis and Facundo Pérez Carlettimembers of the National Council.
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The priorities of the governors and mayors are being raised in the different meetings with the Executive Branch since March, but they were still not completely satisfied. For the PRO, “they are relevant for the generation of private employment in each of the territories,” they stated to Scope.
Despite this conditioning, since PRO they claim that must be met “always guaranteeing a Budget with fiscal balance”.
Budget 2025: Javier Milei’s government denies the definancing of public universities
The debate on the 2025 Budget project continues in the Chamber of Deputies with calls to officials of the Executive power. In this framework, authorities of the Secretary of Education of the Nation They emphasized one of the points most criticized by the opposition blocs: the public university financing.
In this framework, the Undersecretary of University Policies, Alejandro Alvarezexplained the methodology to establish items for higher education. “Before there was no reasonableness in the distribution of the Budget. Do you know how the Budget was distributed before? By lobbying in this Congress. That representative who had the greatest ties with universities achieved higher Budget rates“, he said and assured that: “There is not a single program that is defunded today: we have 100% of the programs and careers of the universities funded.”
Furthermore, he referred to claim from the University of the Arts this Wednesday: “Yesterday we saw them doing dances at Once Station, which I think is very good”. “The University of the Arts has one of the most disastrous administrations that exist in public universities, having seven buildings for rent. […] They did not make any budget forecast and did not organize any way to approach planning, it was simply asking for money,” he said and added that “there is no doubt that the university is not official and is going to have a Budget increase of 431%, compared to 2024”.
Source: Ambito
