Within hours of ordering to roll back the increase in allowances for deputies and senators, Javier Milei justified his project to stop the 30% increase in allowances in Congress.
"Don't tell me that it's not enough for you, there are many people who have it worse
," the President told the legislators.
Furthermore, he anticipated that inflation "is going to collapse like a piano" and responded harshly to Kicillof, within hours of the meeting with governors at the Casa Rosada.
"Given the situation in the country, I told Martín (Menem) to remove that clause and basically advance something that is unrelated and that the politicians vote to see what they want to do with the diets and that they are exposed to society," said the President on
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He reaffirmed that he does not agree with the salary increase, which was established by a 2011 resolution that indicates that legislators are given the same increase as that agreed upon by Congressional employees.
“I understand that they may have needs, but there are 60% of Argentinians poor and more than 10% indigent.
Don't let me say that it's not enough for them because there are many people who are having a much worse time with much less money,” expressed Milei.
This is how he defended the project that he ordered and that Martín Menem announced this Thursday, by which he seeks to go back with the increase in allowances by 30% for national legislators.
The President gave an interview hours after receiving the governors at the Casa Rosada, after weeks of confrontation.
The six provincial leaders of Patagonia confirmed their attendance this Thursday, after a conclave in Puerto Madryn.
And even Axel Kicillof confirmed that he will be present at Government House in the preparatory conclave for the May Pact.
That was another of the points that the president touched on in the interview, after the governor of the Province of Buenos Aires accused him of not sending education funds and for the reduction of the fifth hour in Buenos Aires establishments.
"It's a lie. Money is fungible. Instead of spending so much money on C5N, on a propaganda apparatus to tarnish the national government, you could use it to pay salaries," Milei told Kicillof.
In the most economical section, the President evaluated the decline experienced in the price of the blue dollar in recent times and assured that this anticipates a future decrease in inflation.
"What you see in the dollar is an early indicator of what is happening to you with prices, because it is a financial asset, so it comes first. In that sense, it seems remarkable to me that the dollar, which fell like a piano, "is showing that from now on
inflation is going to collapse like a piano,"
Milei announced.
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