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Los senadores volverán a recibir un aumento de sueldo y pasarán a cobrar $8 millones por mes
En mayo percibieron $7 millones -un neto de $ 4,5-, pero como siguen atados a la paritaria de los trabajadores del Congreso, ahora se incrementarán un 9 por ciento los módulos que conforman la dieta
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May 29, 2024
In May they received $7 million - a net of $4.5 -, but as they are still tied to the parity of Congress workers, now the modules that make up the diet will increase by 9 percent
By David Cayon
Stock Photo - Debate in the Senate of the Argentine Congress, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Mar 14, 2024. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian
While the Bases Law and the tax package are being discussed, the Nation's senators are once again in the news because starting next month their salaries will increase again .
After the scandal, with the differences of opinions between Javier Milei and Victoria Villarruel and the agreement of all the political forces that raised the diet of the legislators of the Upper House, in May they will have an increase as a consequence of the parity of the Congress workers National .
In that aspect, the workers of the Legislative Palace will now have an increase in May of 9% - 2% retroactive to April and 7% from May - and since the legislators' diet was hooked to the parity, theirs will also adjust that percentage .
From this, the salaries of the 72 senators that make up the Upper House will go from $7 million gross to $8 million, starting next month . In hand, during the last month they collected $4.5 million and now they will exceed 5 million pesos.
The text that refers to the allowances that the blocks agreed with Villarruel indicates that they will be made up of 2,500 modules - of $1,800 -, plus an additional 1,000 modules for representation expenses and 500 additional modules for uprooting. Regarding this last point, only four do not currently charge it. In addition, one diet will be added to the current 12 to compensate for the bonus.
Voting of DNU 70/23 in the Senate of the Nation, Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 14, 2024. (Photos: Charly Diaz Azcue / Senate Communication)
The increase was voted on in the chamber but, although the libertarian legislators indicated that they did not accompany it because they understood that politics had to make the effort, none of them donated it or did anything about it as other leaders did in that same situation - Javier Milei himself. he raffled off his deputy's diet
The salary increase that had generated rejection from a large part of society also caused the deputies to raise their demands to the president of the Chamber, Martín Menem, who promised that they would address the issue once the debate on the Bases law was concluded . This happened a month ago and there was no change.
Until before this new increase in allowances, parliamentarians in the Lower House earned between $2.5 and $3 million less than their peers in the Upper House. “We also rent, you also have expenses to live here and that our houses are in the provinces, and we charge just over a million. of pesos,” complained a deputy from the dialogue opposition.
File photo of Martín Menem, president of the Chamber of Deputies of Argentina. EFE/ Matías Martín Campaya
Now, while, for example, the senators of Córdoba will collect just over 5 million pesos in hand, a deputy from the same province will show income of around 1.5 million pesos.
Menem promised to address the issue after May 2 but has not yet resolved it. The deputies could advance on their own since after the initial increase was approved and, after a call from President Milei, the libertarian deputy from La Rioja to back down, several legislators decided to present bills . So there is one that was presented by the libertarian Carlos D'Alessandro and another by the PRO ally, María Eugenia Vidal, to tie the increases of legislators to those of retirees. Another from the federal Oscar Agost Carreño to equate the diets of the heads of the three branches of government.
In the current scheme, a permanent employee of the Chamber of Deputies who has the greatest seniority has income higher than that of the legislators. “On the other side – in the Senate – they earn four times more than us, the difference is already very big. If Menem doesn't do it, we're going to have to hurry it up,” said a pro-dialogue deputy.
