In the midst of the controversy in the Senate for voting by show of hands and without debate a
strong increase in their allowances
that will take their
salaries to $7.2 million gross
, which with the discounts will leave them in hand more than $4.5 million,
two radical senators broke away
and presented a note to renounce the increases.
These are
Rodolfo Suárez
and
Mariana Juri
from Mendoza , who sent a letter to reject their increases. "At the end of the session in the Senate with Mariana Juri, we asked the Administrative Secretariat to analyze
the possibility of not receiving the increase
, which we did not endorse in the vote, to
demonstrate consistency
with the meaning of our vote," posted Suárez, former governor of Mendoza.
"We are hereby writing to you to ask you to analyze the possibility of not including the increase authorized in the Ordinary Session of the Honorable Senate of the Nation on the date of this date, to the liquidation of our allowances," says the note presented by the two senators from Cuyo.
Once the increase was known, President
Javier Milei
crossed the senators. "This is how the caste moves... The only 7 who voted against are the senators from La Libertad Avanza... 2025 will be a historic beating...", posted the president, although it was later learned that the official senator for San Juan ,
Bruno Olivera Lucero
, signed the project to increase the senators' allowances.
After the session in the @SenadoArgentina with @mariana_juri is over, we ask the Administrative Secretariat to analyze the possibility of not receiving the increase, which we did not endorse in the vote, to demonstrate consistency with the meaning of our vote. pic.twitter.com/bLM96ogdqN
— Rodolfo Suarez (@rodysuarez) April 18, 2024
In turn, the Vice President of the Nation and head of the Senate,
Victoria Villarruel,
distanced herself from the increase: "Today the senators from all blocks agreed to an increase in their salary that was voted by show of hands in the chamber because they had the necessary votes. to do so. As President of the Senate, I am NOT a senator, I do not collect from the Senate and I cannot interfere in those decisions.
"Nor can I force a nominal vote or justify the decision endorsed by everyone, because I am NOT a senator. I could have stood up so that my photo did not appear and part of the journalism and trolls accused me of what I DO NOT have interference but I always show my face and today is not going to be the exception. I regret that the people are lied to and that certain sectors take advantage of it to try to get me dirty, but what happened in the Senate is perfectly legal and I have NO tools to stop it," Villarruel pointed out on networks, where he spoke of "trolls."
The increase in the Senate will leave the representatives of the provinces with salaries of $7.2 million gross, who with the discounts will obtain more than $4.5 million in hand.
More than double the net 1.9 million they charge now
.
News in development.
D.S.