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Milei government appeals to Supreme Court to avoid applying university funding law
Argentina's government filed an extraordinary federal appeal with the Supreme Court on Thursday to avoid complying with the University Funding Law (27.795), which requires it to update faculty salaries and scholarship programs at national universities. The Executive argued that complying with the law would consume 90.3% of available primary spending credits and cause “a significant paralysis of the functioning of all three branches of government.
The Treasury Office made the presentation to the Appeals Chamber and then it will go to the Supreme Court. They argue that the current regulation is “impossible to apply because it does not foresee a source of financing.” The request is suspensive, but until it is granted, the Executive has an obligation to start with the flow of transfers.
On Friday’s day, teachers, students and education workers staged a torch march to demand the effective application of the University Financing Law, in the midst of a conflict that continues to escalate. The mobilization had a strong presence in the City of Buenos Aires, where the columns advanced with slogans in defense of the public university. The demand focuses on the lack of funds that, according to them, the national government should guara…
The decision of the national government to file an appeal before the courts to suspend the Law on University Financing places public education in an area of institutional risk that transcends the budget. We are not facing a simple accounting dispute; we are facing the attempt to stop, through judicial means, a law that the Congress of the Nation, as an expression of popular representation, debated, voted and ratified, and that seeks to remove fr…
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chacodiapordia.comThe lawyers of the State presented themselves in the case to avoid payment of the funds as ordered by the Justice. The aim is to reach the highest court.
The Office of the Procurator of the Treasury of the Nation, in charge of Sebastián Amerio, presented an extraordinary appeal a few hours ago for the Supreme Court to suspend the application of articles 5 and 6 of the Law on University Financing. It should be noted that the Government had a deadline to comply with the judicial decision that determined the validity of the articles voted by the National Congress.
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