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It is Wednesday October 2 There will be a demonstration demanding a larger budget for higher public education with its epicenter in the National Congress, but which will be replicated throughout the country. Therefore, many wonder What time is the federal university march in the different provinces of Argentina.
The main slogan of the act is that the President does not veto the university financing law, which provides higher salary budget for higher education institutions. To this end, the march will be accompanied by a total suspension of academic and research activities.
The central event of the march for university education will be the National Congress, but other demonstrations are expected throughout the country for public higher education Hernan Zenteno – La Nacion
“We are convinced that it is not a financing problem, it is a priority problem“, indicated the conveners and highlighted the lack of dialogue with the ruling party to resolve the conflict that, according to them, has been without progress since last April 23, when the first university march to Plaza de Mayo took place.
In September, after obtaining approval in the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate voted in favor of the law university financing, that establishes a recomposition of the budget of national universities, according to the inflation index.
Once the result of the vote in the upper house was known, President Javier Milei anticipated that he would veto the legislationbecause he considers that it goes against the objective of achieving fiscal balance, which is one of the purposes of his management and, in addition, he criticized that the initiative did not establish the source of financing the expenditure that it will imply for the national budget.
The main call is scheduled for Wednesday, October 2, starting at 5 p.m. in the Congress Squarein Callao and Rivadavia. However, there will be concentrations in different nerve centers throughout the country.
The federal university march sand focuses on the claim of budget items to cover operating, research and extension expenses of the universities. This includes a salary recomposition for teaching and non-teaching staff, which ensures that they have accumulated losses of 50% since last December.
University workers claim losses of 50% since last DecemberFabián Marelli
The Government assigned $3.8 billion to national universitieswhile the National Interuniversity Council (CIN) asks $7.2 billion to be able to function.
The difference between that of the Executive and that of the rectors reaches 3.4 billion pesos; and in the event that the law is vetoed, it is possible that the difference will be included in a new negotiation that is part of the 2025 Budget.
The Law that obtained approval in Deputies and Senators seeks to establish criteria for the financing of national universities and proposes declare the budgetary emergency of the national university system. Furthermore, it establishes the inflation update of the budget for national universities retroactively to December 1 of last year.
The university financing law, in turn, provides for the realization of audits on the execution of university fundswhich will be in the hands of the General Auditor of the Nation (AGN).
Marches throughout the country in defense of the public university
In the Patagonian province, there will be different university marches:
The largest province in the country will partially mix with the march in the city of Buenos Airesbut it will also have an epicenter in the south of its geography.
The province of Neuquén has two marches for university education.
In Mendoza there will be two marches to ask for free higher education: one in the provincial capital and another in San Rafael.
There will be two marches through the public university in Santa Fe.
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