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The Government will seek to agree on audits with the universities and will propose that a “neutral technical” body intervene - Infobae
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El Gobierno buscará acordar auditorías con las universidades y propondrá que intervenga un órgano “técnico neutral”
En la Casa Rosada admiten que la manifestación fue un revés político fuerte y buscarán revancha contra los partidos opositores que se sumaron. Críticos de la AGN, evalúan proponer en el próximo encuentro del Consejo Interuniversitario Nacional que intervenga la SIGEN
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April 24, 2024
In the Casa Rosada they admit that the demonstration was a strong political setback and they will seek revenge against the opposition parties that joined. Critics of the AGN consider proposing at the next meeting of the National Interuniversity Council that SIGEN intervene
By Brenda Struminger
Sandra Pettovello
“The bullet entered us, but later it will enter them . ” With those words, an official from Javier Milei summarized this morning the Government's assessment of the first massive march against it and, above all, its plans to counteract its harmful effects on public opinion. With “them” he was referring to the opposition groups that promoted the demonstration, mainly critical radicalism and Kirchnerism. With the “bullet”, the result of the audits that they plan to promote in the short term and that, they are sure, will reflect irregularities that will seriously compromise “the caste.”
The Casa Rosada's strategy regarding the protests changed during the last five days. They went from minimizing it, last week, to describing it as partisan -yesterday-, to admitting that those self-convened protesters, who participated without flags, had "genuine" demands, but that they had been somehow deceived by political actors who "with evil" They had managed to convince them that the Government wanted to close public universities. He did not mention that Milei, during the campaign and during his administration, maintained on several occasions that he does not support public education, that he considers that the best system is the private one and that his medium-term plan is to introduce a system of vouchers and fees.
“The march was impressive. In peace, not a fly flew, they didn't even dirty the square,” they acknowledged this morning at Balcarce 50 with the coldness of someone who knows that revenge will be taken. After the strong setback represented by the enormous call against them, on the one hand they plan to continue the negotiation with the universities for the Budget, and will probably improve the offer that the authorities rejected. But they will focus mainly on auditing. “There has to be an independent control body, that's how things will happen,” said an official.
The underlying objective is to demonstrate the hypothesis, repeatedly introduced by the few spokespersons of the ruling party, that the same leaders who today claim to defend the public university actually used it “as a cash register.” “It's the same as unions with social works ,” they said. The question is whether the Government should redouble its bet after the impact it suffered yesterday.
The march took place throughout the country
Authorized sources from the Casa Rosada had admitted that budget execution control depends on the General Auditor's Office of the Nation (AGN), as dictated by the Higher Education Law, but today they announced that they will not stop insisting to audit from outside. They start from the premise that the AGN, which depends on Congress and whose members are elected by both Chambers, is a “partisan” body, which “barely audits or does so “irregularly,” precisely because it responds to “political interests.” ”.
They know that the path to achieving this will not be easy. The rectors of the universities, including that of the UBA, Ricardo Gelpi , his vice president, the radical leader Emiliano Yacobitti; and the head of the University of San Luis, Víctor Moriñigo , who heads the National Interuniversity Council (CIN), were on guard against the announcement of the plans made by the Government to review the balance sheets, and insisted insistently on the condition of autonomy and autarky of the institutions that lead.
In Government, however, they do not believe that it is impossible. They assured that in the first meeting last week they had informally agreed with the CIN to move forward with a joint audit. And today they revealed that they will not stop seeking an agreement. They will make the proposal, again, but officially, at the next Council meeting, scheduled for April 30, where they will promote the intervention of a “neutral” and “strictly technical” entity. In voiceover, they admitted that they are thinking about the General Audit Office of the Nation (SIGEN), the internal control body of the Executive Branch, which has already made some specific reports. They would be based on an agreement that Cristina Kirchner's former Legal and Technical Secretary, Carlos Zannini, had promoted for SIGEN to improve audit processes. That agreement had been endorsed by 20 of the 54 universities, and the UBA was not among the signatories.
The plan is in the hands of the Ministry of Education led by Carlos Torrendell and, particularly, of the Undersecretary of University Policies led by Alejandro Álvarez. Both respond to the orbit of the Minister of Human Capital, Sandra Pettovello, who in recent days, despite the upheaval that directly affected her portfolio, called for absolute silence and ordered the officials in her orbit to do the same
