After the complaint of the national representative Victoria Tolosa Paz, that the president Javier Milei had received a 48% increase in his salary, as had his ministersthe head of state himself admitted this situation this afternoon, but announced that he will repeal the decree that allowed this automatic increase.
“I have just been informed that as a result of a decree signed by former President Cristina Kirchner in 2010, which established that political officials should always earn more than public administration employees, an automatic increase was granted to the political staff of this government,” the President expressed on his social networks, after the controversy broke out, with the denunciation of the Peronist deputy.
“Every day that passes we find a new rule that favored politicians and harmed Argentines. With us, the losers are going to be the politicians. “Obviously we are going to repeal that decree and roll back any increase that the political plant has perceived,” Milei argued..
In his message on social networks, the President stressed that politicians must be the first to “step up.”
“In a time of crisis like the current one in which Argentine society is making a heroic effort, politicians have to be the first to lend a helping hand. The political joke is over. VLLC (Viva la Libertad Carajo)”, Milei concluded.
What is striking is that the President seems not to have realized that days ago, when he received his salary, he received an increase of almost 50%, which led him to collect more than 4.8 million pesos. Neither did any of the members of the national cabinet.
The controversy ignited this Saturday, when deputy Tolosa Paz, very close to former president Alberto Fernández, denounced on social networks the significant increase that the political staff of the Executive Branch received.
I have just been informed that as a result of a decree signed by former president Cristina Kirchner in 2010, which established that political officials should always earn more than public administration employees, an automatic increase was granted to the political staff…
— Javier Milei (@JMilei) March 9, 2024
Complaint
In the midst of the controversy over the attempt in Congress to increase the salaries of national legislators and legislative officials by 30%, this Saturday, representative Tosa Paz (Unión por la Patria) denounced that President Javier Milei increased his salaries by 48%. income in one month, reaching a salary of 4.8 million pesos out of pocket.
The increase shown by the national representative, who was the last Minister of Social Development of the previous president Alberto Fernándezthe increase also reached all national cabinet ministers.
“With the banner of austerity, Milei lies to us. The President lies to all Argentines. The President signed a decree on February 29 where an increase was applied to all the hierarchical positions of the national Executive Branch but then he made a public representation that the unfair increase is that of the deputies and senators,» wrote the former Albertista minister, on her networks. social, before the presidential retreat.
“Do you know how much the salary of the President, the ministers, the secretaries and the undersecretaries of State increased? It increased by 48% between January and February,” the deputy who is part of the Unión por la Patria bloc had denounced.
“For that reason we are presenting a bill with deputies from Unión por la Patria that allows for the repeal of the increase granted by the authorities of the National Congress for national legislators, but we also ask that the increase that Milei decreed on February 29 be repealed. and that had a direct impact on the settlement of his own salary and that of the senior officials of his government by 48%,» remarked Tolosa Paz, wife of the former official and publicist, José “Pepe” Albistur, a friend of Alberto Fernández, who last month last year he had an unfortunate statement, when he said that Milei’s government would not make it to June.
WITH THE FLAG OF AUSTERITY MILEI LIES TO US
The President lies to all Argentines,
The President signed a decree on February 29 where an increase was applied to all hierarchical positions of the national executive branch but then he made a scene… pic.twitter.com/grNKZVDstD
— Victoria Tolosa Paz (@vtolosapaz) March 9, 2024
Tolosa Paz showed a table with the salaries of Javier Milei’s cabinet to denounce an increase of 48%.
“At the same time, in the same project we ask that the transfer of equal increases for senior hierarchical positions in all branches of the state be suspended: legislative, executive and judicial. A Secretary of State earned $3,282,709.47 in January and in February he earned a salary of $4,864,945.09. The increase was 48% real. Do you want to know how this increase and Milei’s double standards were built?” added Tolosa Paz.
“President Javier Milei signed Decree 206/24 on February 29, which authorized a 12% increase in February for hierarchical positions as a result of the public employment parity, a 14% increase in the public employment parity was also added. December that was not applied in January for those positions and in the month of February the general basis for calculating SINEP remunerations was increased by 16% (as they say in state jargon: the amount of UR)», there was highlighted Tolosa Paz.
“All these factors created a salary with a 48% increase for him and for the senior officials of his government,” remarked the Peronist deputy.
Guillermo Francos had dismissed Tolosa Paz
Before President Javier Milei recognized the salary increase and announced that he would repeal the decree, the Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francos, had dismissed Tolosa Paz’s complaint. “I’m not sure” and “I’m sure there hasn’t been an increase,” were some of his statements to Radio Miter.
“I don’t think that’s the case, I haven’t seen it reflected in the salaries. He surprises me. The President has been demanding regarding this salary issue and has said that no Cabinet official was going to receive a raise. “I don’t understand where that information comes from,” Franco had indicated.
Along the same lines, when asked about his salaries as a minister, the official had stated that his salary had not increased: «What I understand is that it did not increase.» However, he also said he had not seen “his bank account” but “I think it is still the same,” in reference to the amount.
“I don’t know how to answer exactly. Surely there has not been a 48% increase,” she said.
Another proposal
For his part, another deputy from Unión por la Patria, Juan Marino, had also come out at the crossroads of the increase in the cabinet, but with a proposal: “We are preparing a project to reject both this increase and the increase established for national legislators. . We propose the temporary freezing, also of the judges of the Supreme Court, while the deep social crisis that our country is suffering lasts,” said the legislator.
«As it is not about leveling down, but about redistributing to assist those who are suffering from the social massacre caused by the national government, we are simultaneously going to present projects to guarantee food assistance in school and soup kitchens, the delivery of medicines to people with serious illnesses, and the recomposition of the pensions liquefied by the Milei and Caputo adjustment,” Marino highlighted.
The response from Kirchnerism comes after the government’s decision to roll back the salary increase signed by the president of the Senate and Deputies, Martín Menem and Victorial Villarruel, in the midst of a public controversy over political salaries.