The initiative, presented by Senator Francisco Paoltroni, could be discussed after the legislative recess.
The repercussions persist due to the amount of the diets in the Senate of the Nation. After the extension until March of this year freezing of assets of the members of the Upper House, 2025 began with a project that sets caps and enables legislators to give up their income.
The proposal was presented by the Senator Francisco Paoltroniwhich represents the province of Formosa and makes up the uniblock “Freedom, Work and Progress“after his departure from La Libertad Avanza. It establishes that “national legislators may waive all or part of their per diems by means of a formal requestl”, specifying “the scope of the waiver and its validity period”.
One of the most relevant points of the legislation is the article referring to the “determination of the legislative allowance”, which states that – in the event of not renouncing their salaries – a deputy or senator will receive “an amount equivalent to 10 minimum pensions in force at the time of receipt”. If the current scale is taken, each legislator would charge $2,669,070 monthly.
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The document also points out that “the renunciation of allowances will not exempt national legislators from their legal obligations” and establishes that they must “personally assume the costs associated with the exercise of their legislative responsibilities”. Within its eight articles, the project also expresses the possibility of publicly accessing the information of those who gave up their diets.
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Diets in Congress: initiatives to regulate salaries
During 2024, from two legislative blocks proposals emerged to establish regulations established by law on assets that the members of the two chambers of Congress receive.
The first initiative was presented in Deputies for space We make Federal Coalition (at the moment Federal Meeting) in March of last year, under the name “Law on equalization and limitation of remuneration in the public sector“There, an equivalence was proposed between the salary of the Vice President, judges, senators and deputies that does not exceed that of the President of the Nationwhose remuneration would be equivalent to 20 Minimum Vital and Mobile Wages (SMVyM). “No leader of any organization of any of these three powers will be able to obtain higher income,” he says.
A month later, the bench of senators of Union for the Homeland proposed a scheme salary cap of the three powers of the State. The initiative proposed subjecting them to the evolution of the SMVyM and no authority not established by the norm could exceed 9 SMVyM and a total of 20 SMVyM was established for the income of the President of the Nation; 15 for judges, Vice President, senators, deputies, Attorney General and Defender General; 12 for ministers; 10 for secretaries and 9 for executive directors.
For her part, the deputy María Eugenia Vidal (PRO) proposes that salary increases for deputies and senators cannot be greater than percentage of annual increase in pensionswhose current formula -established by DNU- is subject to the CPI.
Source: Ambito
