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Argentine President Javier Milei announced this Saturday that he had reversed a decree that significantly increased his salary and that of his cabinet, after the opposition challenged the far-right president.
Milei was involved in a strong controversy after it became known a salary increase for members of the Executive in the midst of the socioeconomic crisis that the country is going through and its adjustment policy for the public coffers.
The president announced the decision on his cabinet of ministers and other government positions by nearly 50%.
«I have just been informed that as a result of a decree signed by former president Cristina Kirchner in 2010, which established that political officials should always earn more than public administration employees, an automatic increase was granted to the political staff of this Government,” he wrote.
“Obviously we are going to repeal that decree and roll back any increase that the political plant has perceived,” he added.
According to decree 206/2024, dated February 29, signed by the president and his chief of staff, Nicolás Posse, all senior executive officials were to receive a salary increase for several items that, in total, would reach 48%. .
The publication was released today by the Peronist deputy Victoria Tolosa Paz in the context of the recent discussion in Parliament for an increase in the legislators’ allowances, proposed by the presidents of both chambers, Martín Menem (Deputies) and Victoria Villarruel (Senate ), which was stopped by Milei with her ‘anti-caste’ speech.
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