Carlos Torrendell reiterated that they will make a judicial presentation if Congress rejects the veto. He also assured that “the dialogue is not broken” with the opposition.
The Secretary of Education Carlos Torrendell defended this Saturday the President Javier Milei’s veto of the University Financing Law with the argument of lack of funds: ““No one can spend more than they earn.”.
Torrendell justified the decision of the presidential veto. for him “It was not a mistake, the mistake is passing a law without being able to finance it”. He also reiterated that the Government could make “a judicial presentation” in the event that Congress rejects the veto.
Although the opposition will try to reject the veto next Wednesday, the official maintains that “no dialogue cut“and took the drama out of the situation. “The way out is not so complex, the path we have ahead of us, Congress has the opportunity to increase resources for universities, it will have to reduce other expenses,” he said. Torrendell.
“There is a very bad investment of university resources that we are going to have to improve together, it is not a war”he added on Radio Miter.
He then questioned the functioning of public education in general. “We talk a lot about public education and the kids don’t know how to read or write. One can increase educational resources, but if they are wasted they are making a much worse adjustment. We cannot continue directing resources without criteria,” he stated as a justification for the adjustment to the universities.
Deputies set a date to discuss university financing and the Government still does not have the votes to shield the veto
Just minutes after finishing the Federal University March, Javier Milei ratified the veto of the financing law that strengthens items for educational functioning and teacher salaries. In Deputies They already anticipated the measure and are preparing for a session Wednesday, October 9 at 11 a.m.. The opposition began the process of capturing votes and is more optimistic about dismantling the group of “87 heroes” that celebrated the rejection of the retirement reform in Olivos.
The news of the session – which unified orders for five different blocks– It was made official after noon on Thursday after the veto entered Congress. Casa Rosada makes numbers: If all 257 deputies are present, 172 votes (two-thirds) are needed to reverse the presidential veto, so 86 votes ensure that this does not happen. However, The ruling party and the opposition take it for granted that there will be absences of those who seek to avoid confrontation with the Nation and with the university communities of their districts. As a reference, in the session of August 15 there were 35 absentees, coming from all parties.
The aspiration of those who want to overturn the veto is to capture the greatest number of those votes. There is two positions that excite them, mainly because they come from the PRO: that of Alvaro Gonzalezclose to Larreta, and that of Hector Baldassi, the former referee who published his support for the university march on his social networks. The silence of Mauricio Macri and the tension that his party has with Freedom Advances In the city and provincial parliaments of Buenos Aires, yellow defections may deepen.
Source: Ambito
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