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The Argentine government vetoed laws on Wednesday on university funding and emergency health care for pediatrics, reflecting President Javier Milei's aversion to making unforeseen investments under his zero-deficit policy.
"When there are insufficient resources to meet the commitments assumed, the inevitable consequence is the deterioration of the system it claims to protect, accelerated inflation, and the impoverishment of the very sectors it claims to protect," the Argentine government argued in its veto of the university funding law published in the Official Gazette.
Given this decision, Congress could insist and return the law to the Government, something alluded to by the deputy of Democracy Forever, Pablo Juliano, who, through a publication on the social network X, has warned Milei that "her ideological obstacles cannot curtail the future of the Argentines."
"As members of parliament, we have an obligation to insist on the University Financing Law. Access to quality education is essential for progress as individuals and as a society," he argued.
Likewise, the Federation of University Teachers (FEDUN) has announced a 24-hour national strike this Friday at all university centers in Argentina, according to a statement published on its website.
In the same text, FEDUN announced a march by the University Trade Union Front, students, and the university community, "to be held on the day the veto rejection is discussed in Congress, to defend the law."
"There is a strong commitment from teachers to sustaining the public university, which continues to be of high quality thanks to the efforts of all employees," said the federation's secretary general, Daniel Ricci.
Likewise, Milei's administration has vetoed the law declaring a state of emergency in pediatric hospitals as a legal framework, for one year, for the allocation of funds and the use of reserves to undertake salary increases for public employees and exempt certain salary ranges from income tax.
"Regardless of what any political sector might intend, this national government will not take any action that compromises fiscal balance," states the veto of the law, also published in the Official Gazette.
