The House of Representatives is awaiting the call from the Government and opposition blocs are planning to ratify their demands for improvements in universities and pensions.
He Budget 2025 could enter the Chamber of Deputies for debate in the first week of October. In this context, and while evaluations continue in all provinces, Miguel Angel Pichetto He announced what one of the opposition’s priority demands will be.
The block holder Federal Meetingone of the spaces with which the ruling party needs to reach a consensus for the approval of its economic plan, noted that both pensions as university funding must “be discussed now within the framework of the Budget 2025. We are willing to collaborate and seek an agreement with the governors so that the Budget can be voted on, but these issues will undoubtedly have to be discussed.”
In this regard, he understood that “the updating of fares, buses, transportation, food and medicines has a very strong impact on retirees, the middle class and workers. There has not yet been an update of salaries and a recovery of the economy that allows people to withstand all this impact.“. “Regardless of the fact that we all agree that the fiscal aspect must be put in order, the Government’s political proposal must also look at social sustainability, which is one of the elements that make the social peace“, he added in dialogue with Radio 10.
Pichetto pointed against “sectors that have certain privileges and that should undoubtedly start paying taxes to try to collaborate, but the Government has not taken it into account in the Budget.” In turn, he was critical of the roasted at Quinta de Olivos last Tuesday, considering that “There was nothing to celebrate” and analyzing that “the Government chooses the method of veto, collision, conflict“And I think that is not good for Argentina. We need to find a reasonable path of dialogue to resolve the problems.”
Budget 2025: Deputies anticipate discussion on pensions
Deputies from different blocks emphasized the treatment of pension system within the 2025 Budget. In the same sense as Pichetto, Paula Penacca (Union for the Homeland) He raised the need for “a deep and serious debate with the presence of all officials, starting with Caputo, Minister of Economy, and Bausili, the president of the BCRA.”They will have to explain whether they plan to achieve the fiscal surplus objective by adjusting for workers, retirees and students.as they have done until now,” he added on his X account.
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For its part, Luciano Laspina (PRO) He stressed on his social networks that “the government reintroduced the discussion of pensions in article 69 of the budget law by requesting ratification of DNU 274/2024. A great debate on budget priorities is coming“.
The president of the Budget and Finance Committee, José Luis Espert (Freedom Moves Forward) predicted that “Pensions will grow in real terms next year due to the fall in inflation.” Interviewed on Radio Rivadavia, he considered that “this budget seeks to end inflation in Argentina and that there is no increase in taxes. Therefore, we think of people in general and particularly those who generate value, those who undertake, work and study.”
Source: Ambito
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