The Government of Argentina will not renew around 5,000 public contracts next year and will review more than one million social plans to detect irregularities, as reported this Tuesday by presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni.
Adorni also announced that public contracts signed up in 2023 that end on December 31 will not be renewed in 2024, while the rest will enter a ninety-day review process.
At a press conference at the Casa Rosada, the spokesperson specified that this measure will affect all temporary employees of the federal Administration and those of various public entities in Argentina, and 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 predicts, based on calculations from judicial investigations, that 160,000 beneficiaries could be receiving this aid in an “irregular” manner.
According to the spokesperson, these plans would have a total value of 10,000 million Argentine pesos (12.45 million dollars). “Argentines should not be responsible for this money,” Adorni emphasized.
The objective of the Argentine Government is “to make the system transparent, to ensure that those who need it are paid and that (the social plans) stop functioning as a business for intermediaries and the heads of social organizations.”
Precisely, a part of these social and union organizations demonstrated last Wednesday in Buenos Aires, coinciding with the 22nd anniversary of the protests of December 2001, which in the economic sphere led to what is known as the banking ‘corralito’, and in politics caused the resignation of the radical president Fernando de la Rúa (1999-2001).
The General Confederation of Labor (CGT), the powerful and majority federation of Argentine unions, with a Peronist orientation, did not participate in last week’s mobilizations.
Cegetista leaders and sympathizers are expected to mobilize tomorrow in Buenos Aires in protest of the decree of necessity and urgency signed last week by the Argentine president, Javier Milei, pending approval by the Argentine chambers and which represents the practical deregulation of the entire economy of the country.
