The deputy of the Radical Civic Union, Mariano Campero, who in June He voted in favor of the pension reform, changed his position and announced that he will support the veto of the president Javier Milei. “In a black and white Argentina, I am an official,” he said. and accused the opposition of wanting to “break the fiscal balance.”
Just three months after declaring his support for the passing of the law approved by Congress, the legislator changed his position and confirmed that he will support the decision of the Executive Branch to veto all changes to the pension system.
Radical deputy Mariano Campero announced that he will support Milei’s veto
The legislator from Tucumán visited this day the Pink House to maintain a Meeting with President Milei along with four other radical deputies. Campero assured that the meeting “it was very good” and they talked about “all the issues, not only the impact of the veto but also the country’s economic agenda and future expectations.”
The MP denied that the meeting had influenced his change of position. “There was nothing in return,” he stressed. He added: “In fact, if you look at my background, I have been voting with the Government.”
In this sense, he justified his vote: “I have been supporting the Government from the beginning.. Today it may be national news, but it has to do with the conduct we have had of supporting the Government in Parliament despite the parliamentary weakness of La Libertad Avanza.”
“Today, with all the nuances, errors and successesthe Government has a low inflation and fiscal balance economic plan“We are very close to being a country with a surplus and from that perspective I interpret that the opposition is seeking, by taking noble issues, to break that fiscal balance,” Campero added.
Consulted by journalist Nancy Pazos If he “perceived himself as an officialist,” the deputy admitted that “it would be ridiculous of me to put myself in another place in a black and white Argentina.”. The answer would be that I have been voting for everything but without being an official. I am not part of La Libertad Avanza, I am just one more in Congress,” he said and added: “I was a candidate with Patricia (Bullrich), I am more right-wing than all of them.”
Regarding the June half-sanction, the Tucuman deputy stated that “at that time I said that it was a very noble issue, that I thought it had to be put on the table and I was going to vote on it, but I did not agree with Congress generating fiscal expenditures and I promised that it was the last vote that would have an idea of touching the fiscal balance.”
Increase pensions “It is a totally noble issue,” but “if Milei is forced to increase 1.5% of GDP to pay this and another point for Universities, the only way is by issuing or taking on debt.”. From Congress, journalism and politics there is an idea to strike at the fiscal balance.”
Mariano Campero’s speech in support of the law: “Honoring our retirees”
As a member of the UCR bloc, Mariano Campero from Tucumán voted in favor of the Retirement Mobility Law that was partially approved by the Chamber of Deputies last June. At that time, he said that “honoring our retirees is a moral obligation that we have in this chamber.”
“Today our retirees are not making ends meet,” the legislator said during his speech, and stressed that “it is truly an honor that the idea of putting the pension system on the national agenda has emerged from this bloc.”
“Just to give you some information, if the judiciary paid income tax, it would mean 0.16% of GDP. I think the chainsaw should go to the caste, to those who benefit from the Argentine State, to those who receive extra salaries, and not to our retirees,” he said.
Source: Ambito
