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Martín Menem confirmed that the ruling party will present a project to roll back the increase for deputies and senators - Infobae
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Martín Menem confirmó que el oficialismo presentará un proyecto para retrotraer el aumento a diputados y senadores
Fue después de una reunión en Casa Rosada de la que también participaron Cristian Ritondo, Rodrigo de Loredo, Guillermo Francos y Santiago Caputo. Javier Milei había ordenado dar marcha atrás con la medida
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March 07, 2024
It was after a meeting at Casa Rosada in which Cristian Ritondo, Rodrigo de Loredo, Guillermo Francos and Santiago Caputo also participated. Javier Milei had ordered to reverse the measure
By Federico Millenaar
Martín Menem (Maximiliano Luna)
The strong negative impact that the 30% increase on the allowances of deputies and senators had forced the Government to back down and announce that it will send a project to roll back the measure.
The decision was made after a meeting at the Casa Rosada in which the head of the Chamber of Deputies, Martín Menem, the head of the PRO bench, Cristian Ritondo , his counterpart from the UCR, Rodrigo De Loredo, the minister of Interior, Guillermo Francos, and the communication strategist Santiago Caputo.
Through a message on social networks, the head of the Chamber of Deputies announced that “by order of President Javier Milei” the ruling party will present a project to “roll back” the increase. He also sought to distance himself from the measure that he himself signed by pointing out that the increase in allowances was granted “automatically” due to resolution 0013/11 signed by the former president of the Senate Amado Boudou and the former president of the Chamber of Deputies Julián Domínguez in 2011.
“The deputies and senators of the Nation under no point of view should be left out of making the sacrifice that the Argentine people are making to get out of the crisis ,” said Menem.
Menem and Villarruel, who was not invited to the meeting at the Casa Rosada, signed the joint agreement of the workers of the National Congress in which it was established that the cumulative salary increase for the first two months of the year was 16% as of January 1, 2024 and 12% from February 1.
The measure, taken on February 23, established that it was for the staff of the Legislative Palace but did not make specific reference to the legislators. However, by a resolution their salaries are “tied” to the parity of Congress workers.
However, in the past the political decision was made at times to “ disengage ” the salaries of legislators and workers. For example, during the pandemic.
In July 2021, Cristina Kirchner and Sergio Massa - then heads of the Senate and Deputies, respectively - granted a 69% increase for Congressional workers. However, through resolution 03/2022 they determined that any increase in the legislators' salaries had to be “discussed and approved by the plenary session of both Chambers.” This resolution was rejected in November 2022, so the per diems were once again “hooked” to the parity of Congress workers.
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Martín Menem's position on the issue changed after the increase became public since he first assured that he was unaware that the allowances were “hooked” to the increase that he signed but then he defended the increase.
In fact, this morning he had asked to compare the salaries of senators and deputies with those received by their provincial counterparts, the chambermaids, the workers of the AFIP or the Central Bank , as an argument in favor.
Martín Menem announced in February the increase for workers at the Legislative Palace
As Infobae learned , another possibility is to work on a project that Diego Santilli (PRO) already has ready that proposes freezing the increase and tying the allowances to the same update formula used for retirements . Santilli himself suggested this possibility to the President in a telephone conversation.
From one of the dialogue blocks they pointed out to Infobae that the same measure could have been ordered by resolution of the authorities of both Chambers, as happened during the pandemic, but they suspect that the ruling party is seeking to politically capitalize on the situation by seeking for "the caste" to be refuse to vote for reversal. “They played 'if it happens, it happens' and since it had an impact on social networks, which is the only thing that matters to them, let's see if they can capitalize on it ,” they noted.
From the We Make Federal Coalition bloc they told Infobae that they are working on a bill to equate the diets of the heads of the three branches of government with each other. That is, the judges of the Supreme Court, President and Vice, and deputies and senators earn the same, associating the salaries to a multiplier of the minimum wage.
