The publication of the salaries of the President and his Cabinet, with an increase of almost 50%, caused a political earthquake between the ruling party and the opposition.
Javier Milei came out to distance himself from the salary increases and blamed the situation on a decree that
Cristina Kirchner
signed in 2010. Minutes later, it was the former president herself who
came out to cross the current head of the Executive
.
"It made him braver, President," she told him on social networks.
"It made you braver President.
It turns out that it is discovered that you and your officials increased their salaries by 48% and you can't think of a better excuse than to blame me
for a decree that I signed 14 years ago?
" Cristina Kirchner from her Twitter account.
Then he left a phrase with resonance within Peronism, days after Alberto Fernández blamed his secretary for the scandal over hiring of Nación Seguros in ANSeS.
"I'd better not even tell you who it reminds me of, with this blaming a woman," she slipped, as she passed by, the former vice president as well.
And he concluded: "You cannot get more chaste and less original."
It made him braver President.
It turns out that it is discovered that you and your officials increased their salaries by 48% and you can't think of a better excuse than to blame me for a decree I signed 14 years ago?
I better not even tell you who it reminds me of, with this saying… pic.twitter.com/KOBgU3ySg0
— Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) March 9, 2024
The scandal arose in the midst of a confrontation over salary increases at the top of the State.
First, it was the deputies and senators who saw their salaries rise by 30%.
Milei ordered those increases to be rolled back, a decision that must go through the pen of Martín Menem (Lower House) and Victoria Villarruel (Upper House) and that sows discontent among legislators.
This Saturday, deputy Victoria Tolosa Paz circulated the salaries of the President and his ministers and showed a final increase of 48%.
The information spread quickly on social networks, with signs of indignation.
In dialogue with
Clarín
, Milei pointed to decree 799/2010, which bears Cristina's signature and which established increasing remunerations for the higher authorities of the Executive and linked their salaries to the parity of state workers.
She anticipated that she will repeal that decree, which - in her words - automatically triggered the latest salary increases.
"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," the libertarian explained later on his Twitter account.
And he said: "Obviously we are going to repeal that decree and roll back any increase that the political establishment has perceived. In a time of crisis like the current one in which Argentine society is making a heroic effort, politicians have to be the first to put the shoulder".
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