“Agenda issues”: the participation of the Minister of Health in the debate on the 2025 Budget was suspended

“Agenda issues”: the participation of the Minister of Health in the debate on the 2025 Budget was suspended

The absence of the head of such a strategic area, in the midst of the salary demands of workers in the health sector, provoked criticism from the opposition, which also calls for the participation of the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, and the Minister of Human Capital, Sandra Pettovello.

Uncertainty increases in non-governmental sectors because it is the second week without treatment of the bill. Budget 2025 and there is little more than a month left until the end of the legislative year, in the middle of the confirmation from Guillermo Francos that there will be no extraordinary sessions and even the possibility of postponing the budget items for another year, which would imply another period of discretionary deliveries. If the Government obtains approval of Deputiesthe text must be voted on in the Senate.

Foulness of the Secretary of Public Works: he also argued “agenda issues”

The distancing of the national government from investment in public work It is one of the main concerns of national deputies, mainly those that represent provinces whose productive pillar involves strategic infrastructure development. In this framework, the sector commission summoned the secretary of Public Works of the Nation, Luis Enrique Giovine. However, the official was absent.

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Secretary of Public Works of the Nation, Luis Enrique Giovine.

The deputy Bernardo Herrera (Union for the Homeland), holder of the Public Works Commissionexplained that Giovine himself “answered that invitation, confirming receipt and attendance, last Monday at 3:30 p.m. By virtue of them we notified the commission meeting with his participation, but then, on Friday at 13 hours, we received another email from the secretary which says: ‘Dear, thanking you for your invitation, we inform you that due to agenda issues the Secretary of Public Works You will not be able to attend the aforementioned meeting. “His agenda suddenly filled up,” Herrera concluded.

When you speak, Julio Cobos (UCR) He asked to insist on the call and understood that the situation “is very worrying. We must insist because we want to know what the Government’s plan is.” “The continuity of a work cannot be conditioned on the signing of an agreement with the Government. It is the responsibility of the Nation“, critical.

In turn, Álvaro González (PRO) analyzed that “one can determine the decision they want with public works and even eliminate it… if they can explain it“. “If the political decision of the national government is to eliminate public works, the least they can do with the Legislative Branch is to come to the specialized commission and explain why they want to eliminate public works or in any case why they have changed it. “, he said and expressed his doubt as to whether the official intention is to “change the public works law or leave the Argentine Republic without public works. And the official does not come; It seems to me a total lack of respect for the Argentine Parliament“.

Source: Ambito

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