The project added reallocations for US$30.5 million and will be voted on starting Tuesday, before returning to Deputies for final approval.
The Budget Commission integrated with the Treasury of the Senate Chamber made official the approval of the Accountability project.
The project approved this Thursday afternoon added reallocations for about 30.5 million dollars and will now be voted on starting next Tuesday, prior to its return to the Chamber of Deputieswhere a definitive sanction will be given.
Among the reallocations, the item to reinforce the salaries of the Armed forcesin the order of 10 million dollars, which will allow everyone from soldiers to lieutenant colonels to receive a salary increase of 1,000 pesos as of its entry into force on January 1, 2024.
In turn, 4.8 million dollars were allocated for public health, contemplating the remodeling of the Hospital de Clínicas, 4.2 million dollars for security, and 3.6 million dollars more for education, among other reallocations. .
Likewise, an article was approved by which the Power of attorney must require the medical history of inmates to grant house arrest, after what was the scandal over sending drug traffickers to serve their sentences from their homes, among other measures.
The Multicolor Coalition achieved unity for the approval of the Accountability in the Senate Commission
The senator of National Party (PN), Jorge Gandinicommented through his X (Twitter) account that the work in the Budget Commission for Accountability ended with the vote on new articles, “mostly unanimously.”
The nationalist legislator added that the reallocated $30.5 million will not mean an increase in budget spending, and highlighted the fact that “the commitments were met, and the coalition passes another test with solidity and unity.”
Source: Ambito
