The government of Javier Milei is starring in another chapter of the budget dispute with public universities this Saturday, since the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) rejects the General Audit of the Nation (Sigen) to audit its accounts because it considers that it is an “attempt of intervention”.
“UBA, audit and disclosure principle”Milei published this Saturday on his X account, after another message the day before in which he had stated that “the UBA refuses to be audited. This not only reveals that the authorities are dirty, but also that things are worse.” to what he imagined, “since the only sense of hiding information is that what exists is but (worse) than imagined.”
“We are going to audit them. The jets are not going to have peace in Argentinabecause whoever makes them pays for them,” the president attacked later this Saturday on Miter radio.
??? | “We are going to audit them, the jets are not going to have peace, we are going to put them in prison”: Full interview with President Javier Milei (@JMilei), where he talks about the salary increase above inflation, the removal of the stocks, the audits of public universities and much more. pic.twitter.com/s4H9pok7Nd
— La Derecha Diario (@laderechadiario) October 26, 2024
The UBA considers that Sigen does not have the powers to audit universities nationals, so it decided to take the controversy to Justice and make a national and international call for independent professionals to carry out a special audit of its internal control system.
The house of higher education also denounced that, “behind the accusations of lack of transparency” carried out by the Milei Executive, there is an “ideological attack on the very idea of the free, free, and massive university” and stated that “wants to control academic freedom.”
The Ministry of Human Capital, which includes the Ministry of Education, had announced this Friday that “there is no collision between university autonomy and autarky and the control competence of Sigen in the field of national universities”.
“The lack of control of the application of the significant public funds that the National State allocates to the National Universities makes it possible for these resources to be used for purposes other than those for which they were assigned,” stated Capital Humano.
The conflict between the Milei Government and public universities escalated this month with a massive marchstrikes by teachers and non-teachers and with the takeover of faculties throughout the country by students, in the face of the president’s veto of the University Financing Law, which updated salaries and budgets according to inflation, which in September was located at he 209% year-on-year.
Civil society carried out two massive demonstrations so far this year in defense of the public university, on April 3 and October 2.
Milei responded that “the public university is not under discussion” and not tariffed in Argentina, but Their intention is for them to “be audited.”
The Undersecretary of University Policies, Alejandro Alvarez, recalled this Saturday in his X account that Sigen carried out an audit in 2011 on the internal control system in the degree granting circuit at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the UBA, but that the Treasury Attorney in 2011, Carlos Zannini, “He gave them a tailor-made opinion to avoid these audits” by removing Sigen’s competition.
“We made a new ruling and opened the door of transparency again!” Alvarez stated, since the current attorney, Rodolfo Barra, once again enabled Sigen to audit the universities.
Some 2 million people study in the 57 national higher education institutions financed by the State in Argentina, where access to public university education has been free since 1949.
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