Spaces considered dialogue-oriented held a press conference to express themselves in favor of the mobilization that requests budget execution for universities.
During this Tuesday’s session at the Chamber of Deputieswhich among a series of projects seeks to turn into law the Single Paper Ballot that could be implemented in elections 2025a press conference was held in support of the mobilization that will be carried out by different actors from the universities next October 2nd.
The meeting took place in the living room Lost Steps with the intention of calling for the federal march and in the prelude to what could be an eventual presidential veto of the University Financing law approved by both chambers in the month of September. In this framework, there were representatives of the UCR, Federal Meeting, Civic Coalition and even the PRO -those closest to Horacio Rodríguez Larreta. The Peronist and leftist blocs support the demand but were not called to the conference: “We wanted to avoid extremes,” a radical deputy told Ámbito.
One of the speakers was Monica Fein (Federal Meeting)who stressed that “public education is not negotiated and is not vetoed.” “We will accompany in the streets the free mobilization of citizens who want an open and free university,” he said. The senator also spoke Martín Lousteau (UCR): “This government permanently attacks university education, but is not thinking about how to improve it.” For its part, Maximiliano Ferraro (Civic Coalition) pointed out against the veto to retirements: “I hope we don’t have a celebration with the same characteristics as the Quinta de Olivos.”
University March on October 2
In the run-up to the mobilization called for this Wednesday by the universities, the Government harshly questioned the study houses. Meanwhile, The negotiation between both sectors went to an interim period that will resume on October 7 and the CGT confirmed his presence at the march.
Under the motto “The University is not the problem, it is part of the solution“, thousands of people will demonstrate in rejection of budget cuts, the privatization of services and the elimination of scholarship programs. The protest will be a repeat of the massive mobilization that took place on last April 23rd.
The rectors of public universities, grouped in the National Interuniversity Council (CIN) They issued a document in which they highlighted the critical situation that the country’s public universities are going through. “It is unacceptable and deeply unfair that those who have the responsibility of training future generations of professionals and, with their daily work, allow universities to function, are today the worst payments and the most harmed by the increases granted. More than 70% of higher education workers they receive salaries below the poverty line and thousands have not received any increase since the beginning of the year,” they detailed.
Within the framework of university parity, The teaching and non-teaching unions of the national universities rejected the 6.8% salary offer that the Government made on Thursday. Other claims include a larger budget for the educationthe restitution of the FONID and the rejection of the veto of the university financing bill.
Fernando Brovelli Report.-
Source: Ambito
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