He government of Argentina will not renew around 5,000 public contracts next year and will review more than a million social plans to detect irregularities, as reported this Tuesday by the presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adorni.
Adorni also announced that the public contracts registered in 2023 that end next December 31 They will not be renewed in 2024, while the rest will enter a ninety-day review process.
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At a press conference at Pink Housethe spokesperson specified that this measure will affect all temporary employees of the federal Administration and those of various public entities of Argentinaand that only workers in state companies and companies will be excluded.
Regarding social plans, the Argentine Executive will begin the audit of more than one million social plans and anticipates, based on the calculations of judicial investigations, that 160,000 beneficiaries They could be receiving these aid in a way “irregular”.
According to the spokesperson, these plans would a total value of 10,000 million Argentine pesos ($12.45 million).
“Argentines should not be responsible for this money,” emphasized Adorni.
The objective of the Argentine Government is “make the system transparentthat those who need it get paid and that (the social plans) stop functioning as a business for the intermediaries and the holders of the organizations social”.
Precisely, a part of these social and union organizations demonstrated last Wednesday in Buenos Airescoinciding with the 22nd anniversary of the protests December 2001, which in the economic sphere led to what was known as the banking ‘corralito’, and in the political sphere led to the resignation of the radical president. Fernando de la Rua (1999-2001).
In last week’s mobilizations the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), the powerful and majority federation of Argentine unions, with a Peronist orientation.
Leaders and supporters are expected to cegetists will mobilize tomorrow in Buenos Aires in protest of the decree of necessity and urgency signed last week by the president Javier Mileipending approval by the Argentine chambers and which represents the practical deregulation of the entire country’s economy.
