“You have to veto Milei,” said one of the posters of the massive national march in defense of public education and health against Congress, in the center of Buenos Aires. Within the enclosure of the Chamber of Deputies, the opposition has achieved rejection of Two presidential vetoes to the increase in state funds for public universities and for the Garrahan Hospitala reference in pediatrics in Argentina and Latin America.
The enormous march- the third since Javier Milei assumed in December 2023- who have starred students, university teachers, doctors, retirees and unions of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) and the Central of Workers of Argentina (CTA) has been a demonstration of strength in the streets to sustain, among others, the University Financing Law.
The standard provides for a salary improvement for teachers and employees of public universities, as well as an update of funds for infrastructure and scholarships for students. As estimated by the National Interuniversity Council (CIN), since December 2023, the sector budget suffered a real fall of 30%, while the salaries of the teachers lost 40% of their purchasing power.
The opposition in deputies managed to gather 174 votes in favor of ratifying the law against 67 votes against and two abstentions. In the case of the pediatric emergency, there were 181 votes of almost all political spaces in favor of maintaining it and 60 against the ruling party La Libertad progresses and its allies of Mauricio Macri. Days ago, President Ultra had vetoed the emergency law to pediatric hospitals dependent on the national state, with epicenter at the Garrahan hospital.
Gustavo Samudia, a laboratory technician for 15 years at the Garrahan hospital charges almost the same since Milei assumed, says Eldiario.es. “The veto is reversed and that is important, but here we have the antecedent disability, which already threw the veto down and yet the workers still do not charge a currency in what is disability, we are afraid to continue along the same path, because the national government does not comply with what it has to comply with, which is with the law.”
“Alta Coimera, Karina Alta Coimera,” the manifestors sang with the melody of the popular Guantanamera song and became a hit in Argentina. The issue refers to Karina Milei and the bribes scandal (coimas) revealed about the National Disability Agency and that involves the president’s sister, according to the filtration of audios of the agency’s former, Diego Spagnuolo.
Beeked by the electoral setback in the recent legislative elections in the province of Buenos Aires, the ultra -rightist government presented on Monday a budget project for 2026 in which it promised increase for health, education and retirement, three areas in which it has maintained cuts and vetoes since it assumed to the front of the Executive. However, this promise does not recompose the sectors most affected by the chainsier to public spending.
Samudia says about it: “We are talking about someone (Milei) who has been lying to us and base 0.8 %, that is, nothing.
The masivity of the march was extended from the square in front of Congress, passing through Rivadavia Avenue and Avenida de Mayo and surrounding streets, all full of students, retirees, teachers, health workers, among others .. The call was replicated in other cities of Argentina, such as Córdoba, Rosario, Santa Fe and Tucumán. The two laws approved in Congress are the product of the consensus achieved by society in favor of public health and education, have sustained from the union centrals.
Together with unions and universities marched on foot. Like Jorge Chávez, who supports Eldiario.es that the public and free public university is an flagship brand of the country. “I live in Buenos Aires ten years ago. I am a psychologist graduated in Colombia and I came here to make a specialization in disabilities. I am supporting all manifestations, defending my work and everyone. Many compatriots come to study here to the free public university that do not have other countries, unfortunately. I work on my own, then, I charge them to social works and, well, that is my job, with an entry for almost two years. Veto (because Congress maintained the emergency law for disability), we must wait to see what happens, because we continue to invoice the same.
To reject Milei’s vetoes and insist with the laws, the opposition needs to get majority of two thirds of the legislators present in both chambers. Now the pulse will move to the Senate.
