While the treatment continues in commission, the Government advances in negotiations with the dialogue blocs to achieve approval of the Budget 2025. This Wednesday, they met with radical legislators, who remain firm in their differences over the resources destined for universitiesthe destination of the funds when there is a increase in collection and the mobility of family allowances, among other points.
One of the points that seeks to modify the block of the Radical Civic Union is that, in the event of an increase in tax collection and social security, it is clarified that will not be used for discretionary spending but for the tax reduction. The UCR hopes that this point will be included in the first article of the 2025 Budget project.
The Government foresees, as indicated in the draft Budget 2025, a annual inflation of 18.5% and a year-on-year average of 28% for next year. However, there are consulting companies that questioned these predictions and advanced a inflation around 35%.
The meeting was attended by the secretary of the ruling party. Tax authorities, Carlos Guberman; the president of the commission Budget, José Luis Espertand the provisional head of the Senate, Bartolome Abdala. On the radicalism side, the head of the block joined, Rodrigo de Loredo; the secretary of the Budget Committee, Lisandro Nieri, and Julio Cobosamong others.
The ruling party needs to reach agreements with the UCRhe PRO, Federal Meeting, the Civic Coalition and Federal Innovation to get majority opinion and then get approval at the venue. Between Union for the Homeland (UxP) and the left have almost half of the commission members.
The UCR demanded an increase in funds for universities in the 2025 Budget
Another point where UCR marked his distance from the initiative of the Government It was in the funds allocated to the universities. The project presented by the ruling party ensures that resources will be increased by 28 percent by granting 3.8 billion pesoswhile the National Interuniversity Council claims 7.2 billion.
Although the radicals have not yet received a response to this proposal, they did get the ruling party modify the article that advanced about the autonomiesand which provided that if the expenses were not correctly documented The resources were not going to be sent.
Negotiations for the 2025 Budget advance: the requests of the UCR
Furthermore, the UCR requested that the mobility of family allowances because they consider that its repeal makes this expense discretionary.
They also oppose ratify the DNU for updating pensions If the 8 percent compensation for January inflation as proposed in the law that was vetoed by President Javier Milei.
Another article questioned by the UCR is the one suspends 6 percent of GDP destined for education, since it will aggravate, they maintain, the situation in the provinces.
Among their demands is that 0.3 percent of the budget is guaranteed to the forest lawbecause the Government allocates only 1,500 million pesos.
Source: Ambito
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