Vice President Victoria Villarruel reopened the controversy in Congress over the salary increases that were given to legislators this year and that President Javier Milei ordered eliminated.
At the beginning of March, a stir arose over the 30% increases that had been granted in both the Deputies and the Senate, in the midst of the austerity policy promoted by La Libertad Avanza.
After the rain of criticism, the President ordered the increases to be rolled back to last December in both Chambers, something to which Villarruel and the president of Deputies subscribed, Martín
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By March, when the controversy arose, two increases had been granted in Congress, 16% in January and 12% in February.
According to parliamentary sources indicated to Noticias Argentinas, the lower house signed a resolution to return to December salaries, that is, without increases.
The controversy was reopened these days between the legislators of both Chambers, since the members of the Senate received their salaries with the 16% granted in January, that is, Villarruel went back, but not as much as Milei had requested.
“Let the deputies not tell me that the money is not enough, that many people are having a worse time,” the President had said after ordering the allowances to be moved back to December.
