Con 142 affirmative votes had half a sanction in the Chamber of Deputies Increased retirement y With 111 the extension was approved by two years of the pension moratorium. Outside the Congress there was a massive mobilization where retired, disability groups, professionals and health workers such as Garrahan, dismissed workers, feminist organizations, among many others. The persistence of retirees and retirees who protest every Wednesday, transformed them into a symbol of resistance to Milei’s adjustment.
The increase to retirement includes:
- A Revusion for all 7.2% retirements Due to inflation when Milei changed mobility for DNU. The same will be incorporated to credit.
- The Bonus update which is frozen at $ 70,000 since March 2024, so that it becomes $ 110,000 and updated for inflation monthly automatically along with mobility.
- That the government regularizes the Debt with provincial pension funds They have up to date the corresponding audits (such as the case of Córdoba)
- It includes an article for the new mobility that was established by presidential decree more than a year ago, now it is embodied and ratified in a law.
- It establishes different sources of financing, such as the elimination of tax benefits to companies, of the funds for the SIDE of $ 32.6 billion, of the savings for the elimination of interest overloads of the IMF.
In the vote in general obtained 142 affirmative votes. With Union for the Homeland, Federal Meeting, Democracy Forever, Left Front and Civic Coalition. They also voted in favor of some Discol radicals, and many of the usual allies of the ruling party. It was the case of the two federal innovation Salta (Caletti and Vega), Baldassi of the PRO, the San Juan Picón and the former libertarian Arrieta. The tucumanos ex union for the country who for the first time did not vote with the Milei government surprised.
From the left They accompanied the initiative, although they also pointed out their limits. His proposal is that retirees and retirees must charge The equivalent of the cost of the basic basket of the elderly which is above $ 1.2 million. Del Caño proposed that the bono be updated by inflation since it is frozen, that is to say that it is $158.000. In the particular vote They did not accompany the mobility of Mileisince they propose that it be for inflation or private salaries registered according to which one is most beneficial for retirees.
La Libertad progresses I can barely gather 67 votes for the rejection of the increase with a PRO sector (the one who responds to Patricia Bullrich) and the “Radical with wig” They are already in their own block.
He Pro who responds to Mauricio Macri and almost the entire UCR opted for abstention. It is a way to “keep” a letter in case of presidential veto: if they wanted to defend this law, better not have voted against.
From federal innovation, usual government allies, they chose to be absent.
The surprise of the night was that the half sanction of the extension of the pension moratorium achieved that had defeated in March this year. Without her 7 out of 10 people of retirement can no longer do it. The union proposal for the country and the left front was to extend it for 2 years. The calculations were not going to leave, but finally managed to approve with 111 affirmative votes, 100 negatives and 15 abstentions. It was a very finite number, for a combination of the amount of absent and abstentions. In case of veto, you will be less likely to sustain.
After the vote of the moratorium, Miguel Ángel Pichetto He got up angry with his block for the result. It is one of those who opposes sharply, and the abstention of several of the members of the space that leads collaborated to approve. The alternative was to promote a proportional benefit that would have 80% of the minimum retirement as a floor.
Now The Senate must work for its treatment, after a new scandalous increase in its diets that already reach $ 9.5 million is known. They must decide on those who charge $ 360,000 per month.
Milei’s government has already announced that plan to veto the laws that have “fiscal impact”. But during the session several deputies and deputies marked the contradictions of the official discourse.
According to Martín MenemPresident of the Chamber, the increase in the bonus for retirees has a fiscal cost of 0.35% of GDP, although they are not official data or know how they reached that estimate. He replied Nicolás del Caño comparing with Capital payments and debt interest that “on average, between 2020 and 2024, cost 12% of GDP”. In the case of the Extension of the pension moratorium If there are official data from the Congress Budget Office: it has a cost of 0.08% of GDP in 2025. Christian Castillo completed denouncing that those who do not want to increase retirement or extend the moratorium is because they are “kneeling before the IMF.”
In the case of Nicolás Massot He pointed out that the “33 thousand sticks that gave the spies of the SIDE by decree” go for retirement, in addition to ending VAT exemptions for company directors, among other points.
From Union for the Homeland, Carlos Heller He spoke of the richest who commit the crime of tax evasion. “The Government tells us that there are between 200 and 400 billion not declared dollars, which are not declared profits,” said Heller warning that there can be resources for retirees.
The session continues with the declaration of emergency of disability and the areas affected by floods in the province of Buenos Aires. There will also be commission locations to put treatment dates of the investigator of the $ LIBRA case, the emergency by the Garrahan hospital and University Financing Law.
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