Rectors of public universities They expressed their expectation in Congress to overthrow with the veto of Javier Milei to the law of University Financing and they highlighted the massiveness of the march in defense of education that took place throughout the country. At the same time, heThe academics admitted that there are “positive” signals from legislators and predicted that the presidential measure will not be protected by parliament.
Just hours after students, unions, workers and teachers, among others, will overflow the streets and squares of numerous cities in Argentina, Milei heeded his previous warnings and vetoed the new legislation. Although the event was expected by the actors involved, theIt is true that it deepened the unrest and generated fissures between the Government and its allies, who have already expressed differences with the Casa Rosada.
Universities: expectation of rectors to overturn Javier Milei’s veto
In this regard, the rector of the National University of San Luis (UNSL) and president of the National Interuniversity Council (CIN), Victor Morinigohe specified Scope that the first signs from Deputies are “positive.” “There would be a will to uphold the law and not shield the veto. We are going to see what the Government’s reaction is. We are waiting for them to call us to build some consensus, as we knew how to do in the march on April 23,” he commented.
He also said that the scenario is “more complex” than that of months ago, since now the unions have also joined the negotiation. In that sense, Moriñigo indicated that If “the Government puts on the table a proposal for semi-annual recomposition, in installments, I believe there would be good will; that is what it imagines.”
“The unions are waiting for a bit of predictability. If the Government understands it well and makes a semi-annual offer, which closes the difference a little, I think it would be a very good gesture. I hope that the Government reads it well and can remove an issue of on. Don’t be left with the story of universities that don’t perform, that have kids who don’t study, that hire people who are involved in politics. I think that’s a waste of effort and time. “What they would have to do is sit with us and find a way out,” complete.
In the same vein, the vice-rector of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Emiliano Yacobittihe anticipated in an interview with Area in which conversations began from universities with the legislative representatives of each province and that “The expectation is that the deputies comply with what they told the people when they voted for them: that they defend the public university.” On this point the radical leader.”
“Milei is not going to back down. But they voted for the majority of the deputies for saying that they defended the public university. Even government officials. I don’t know what the radical deputies will do, it’s hard for me to imagine that they support the veto. In the provinces, Pullarlo, Schiaretti, Kicillof, Sadir, Larreta also expressed their support for the march… evaluated the leader of the Radical Civic Union (UCR).
For his part, the rector of the National University of La Plata, Martin Lopez Armengoltold this media that “the veto is a predictable decision due to the announcements that Milei had made.” Like his Cuyo peer, the academic also bets on parliament.
“After the massive march, now the next step is to wait for a favorable response from both chambers of Congress to insist on the University Financing Law, approved by a large majority and very important to give predictability to the system and rebuild the salaries of university workers. , who have been losing a lot so far this year”he evaluated.
Along the same lines, the rector of the National University of Rosario, Franco Bartolacci called the presidential veto an “error” and “provocation.” “I have been through university for many years and have never seen anything like this. The truth is that it is a tremendously difficult year. The most painful thing is the permanent grievance, the disqualification and what is said about universities without foundation, seeking to discredit the task to justify what they do”, evaluated in dialogue with Radiofónica.
Warning from legislators allied to the Government
The particularity of the occasion is that the criticism of the Casa Rosada not only came from the most intransigent opposition, but there was also shrapnel from leaders and allied parties.
The senator from Córdoba Luis Judge (PRO), for example, described the Nation’s advance on universities as a “mistake.” “Do you want to audit them? Do you want to investigate their accounts? Do you want to destroy the businesses that Kirchnerism created with the universities in some places? Go ahead. Now, the public university has been one of the most important flags that Argentina has had” , said Miter Córdoba.
At the same time, the Judge stated that he will vote against the presidential veto if it is discussed in the Senate. The thing is that now the stage lights will fall on Congress, which will have to decide what fate the measure will have.
Another of the legislators of the upper house who spoke on the subject was the Fuegian Pablo Blancoof the Radical Civic Union (UCR). The senator stated that unlike what happened with the increase for retirees, “the deputies and senators of the UCR are going to think twice before changing their position and extending a favor from the Casa Rosada. It will not be easy to align them with the ruling party.” “There will no longer be 87 heroes,” He said in reference to the deputies who were entertained by Javier Milei at the Quinta de Olivos after supporting the veto of the Retirement Mobility law.
For its part, the Chamber of Deputies has already called a session for next Wednesday, October 9 at 11 a.m. There the future of the presidential veto will begin to be defined. Previously, on Monday, there will be a new joint meeting between representatives of the universities and the Government.
Source: Ambito
