The deputy Paola Vega Rodriguez (PAC-San José) threw harsh words against the deputy Carlos Ricardo Benavides (PLN-San José) for the reactions that the Verdiblanco congressman has had after the approval of a motion in the project of Public Employment Law which, according to some actors, excludes public universities from the scope of the initiative.
Yesterday a motion by Vega was approved that establishes that within the public employment system that is created with the Law, there will be in addition to the Mideplan, Civil Service and the municipalities, the public universities.
Given this, the deputy Carlos Ricardo Benavides protested on his Twitter account and accused the Government and Administration Commission of having approved a motion whose effect would be to exclude the salaries of the universities from the general rule, granting its authorities the possibility of self-regulation and therefore, approval of salary bonuses.
Today in the Commission, Vega defended what was approved and argued that “What is being done is to add a subsection that allows the higher education system to generate its own regulations regarding the recursive phase and dismissal.”. He also responded to Deputy Benavides and said that he understands that he is reacting in this way:
He is a deputy who is on the margin of error in the polls, who does not fuel in the internal convention and needs a topic to see how he makes headlines and is now granted as the victorious one who comes to put order.
The ruling party also said that the Verdiblanco deputy does not want to put order with the salary issue of public universities, but to mess with those institutions. “What bothers him is the university autonomy”, he emphasized.
If someone here has concerns about not being able to be a presidential candidate that is going to resolve them to a couch or his party, but does not bring that personal burden to a discussion that what he seeks is to guarantee an adequate future for a key institution such as the public higher education.
In addition, the PAC deputy also pointed to the Christian Social Pedro Munoz, who today launched his presidential candidacy and who in his speech criticized the health measures imposed by the Government against the COVID-19 pandemic: “They have wanted to overwhelm us with fear, they have wanted to scare us with abusive and irrational closings: none of you are afraid”, said the Christian Social.
Given this, Vega ironically:
Today a candidate was launched with a speech almost taken from the Cold War, as if we had gone back to the 80’s talking about communism and all this. This structure of centralizing the entire issue of public education and monopolizing powers was very typical of the Soviet Union..
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