Deputies of the ruling party demand to deal with the Universal Basic Wage

The organizations again responded to Vice President Cristina Kirchner and demanded the prompt treatment of the Universal Basic Wage project, presented in the Chamber of Deputies. Through a statement that bears the signature of the legislators representing the Evita Movement and Barrios de Pie, they said that these initiatives “must be a priority on the legislative agenda.” This new claim by the groups is part of the dispute over the management of social plans, which opened from Cristina Kirchner’s speech at the CTA. There, the vice president demanded that the State regain control of social programs and referred to the Evita Movement, close to President Alberto Fernández: “The application of social policies that cannot continue to be outsourced,” said the head of the Senate. Popular movements are not outsourced forms of social assistance, since they have accompanied access to land, shelter and work where there was nothing to outsource because only exclusion reigns,” they said.
In that line, they maintained that politics “must offer overcoming solutions that can synthesize the contradictions and solve the problems of our most vulnerable compatriots.” Therefore, they demanded to deal with the Universal Basic Wage, the Productive Monotribute and the extension of the Indigenous Territorial Emergency Law.” These initiatives should be a priority in the legislative agenda of the next session because they not only highlight the demands of the sector, but also provide comprehensive solutions to problems that belong to Argentine society as a whole,” they said. The communiqué bears the signatures of deputies Juan Carlos Alderete; Eduardo Toniolli; Natalia Souto; Itai Hagman; Leonardo Grosso; Veronica Caliva; Natalia Zaracho and Federico Fagioli.

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