The Argentine government suffers another setback in the Chamber of Deputies following the approval of university funding and the rescue plan for the Garrahan pediatric hospital. The initiative was approved by a large majority, with 159 votes in favor, 67 against, and 4 abstentions. Meanwhile, the opposition secured a vote that could challenge President Javier Milei’s repeated vetoes. Now, the project to improve the university budget, drafted by the institutions themselves, will move to the Senate, where it must be approved, along with the rescue plan for the Garrahan Hospital, in order to become law.
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00:04In Argentina, the government of Javier Mele suffered a new setback after deputies approved financing to universities and also the rescue to the Garahan Pediatric Hospital.
00:14The initiative was approved by a large majority, collecting 159 votes to 67 votes against and for abstentions.
00:24The opposition, meanwhile, gets a vote with which they could challenge the constant vetoes of the far-right head of state.
00:32Now the project to improve the university budget drawn up by the study house themselves will go to the Senate where it must be approved as does the rescue of the Garahan Hospital in order to become law.
00:46And also in this context, earlier on Wednesday, the demonstration of retirees in front of the National Congress that is held every Wednesday was repressed by the security forces while the Congress was in session.
01:00The pensioners, state workers, scientists, university professors and public health personnel gathered to demand once more that what the executive power decides to silence with vetoes and decrees be heard.
01:12In this sense, the security forces attacked with water cannons, trucks and rubber bullets to workers and retirees who demanded in front of the Legislative Palace an increase of budget and a stop to decrease of dissolution of public institutions.
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