Professors and university students from Argentina, supported by unions, left-wing movements and Peronist politicians, held this Wednesday (2) a demonstration in Buenos Aires to ask that President Javier Milei not veto a law to increase resources for public institutions of higher education. There was also mobilization in other Argentine cities.
Last month, the Senate approved a measure that had passed in August in the Chamber of Deputies, which establishes an update of the budget for the sector based on last year’s inflation and a bimonthly indexation through a coefficient that would combine 50% of the Index of Consumer Prices (IPC), 25% of the variation in the dollar and 25% of increases in public service tariffs.
Milei has already said that he will veto the project, which, according to him, would compromise his administration’s goal of zero deficit.
“The people ask, Mr President, that the veto on the university financing law does not prosper”, asked the president of the Argentine University Federation, Piera Fernández, during the demonstration, according to information from the Clarín newspaper.
The Milei government considered the demonstration to be political, due to the participation of Peronist names, such as Sergio Massa, the presidential candidate defeated by Milei last year.
“They turned a march in defense of public universities into a Kirchnerist act,” said Javier Lanari, deputy press secretary for the Argentine government. Throughout the day, Milei reposted messages on her social networks that called the demonstration “political and Kirchnerist”.
A possible veto by Milei on the project could be overturned in the Chamber of Deputies, but the possibility of this happening is uncertain: in September, the opposition was unable to gather two thirds of the votes in the house to reverse a veto by the president on a law that established a change in retirement and pensions that would increase State expenses.
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