Argentina will not renew about 5,000 public contracts

He Government of Argentina Next year, it will not renew about 5,000 public contracts and will review more than a million social plans to uncover irregularities, as presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni reported this Tuesday.

Adorni also announced that the public contracts signed in 2023 that end on December 31 will not be renewed in 2024, while the others will enter a ninety-day review process.

At the press conference in pink house, The spokesman specified that this measure will affect all temporary employees of the federal administration and those in various public entities in Argentina, and that only workers in state-owned companies and companies will be excluded.

As for social plans, Argentina’s executive will begin an audit of more than a million social plans and predicts, based on calculations from judicial investigations, that 160,000 beneficiaries could be receiving the aid in an “irregular” way.

According to the spokesman, the plans would have a total value of 10,000 million Argentine pesos ($12.45 million).

“Argentinians should not be responsible for that money,” Adorni emphasized.

The goal of the Argentine government is “make the system transparent, let those who need it pay and (social plans) stop functioning as a job for middlemen and heads of social organizations.”

Namely, part of these social and trade union organizations protested last Wednesday in Buenos Aires, coinciding with the 22nd anniversary of the protests from December 2001, which in the economic sphere led to what is known as the banking ‘corralito’, and in politics caused the resignation of a radical President Fernando de la Rúa (1999-2001).

In last week’s mobilizations General Confederation of Labor (CGT)the powerful and majority federation of Argentine trade unions, with a Peronist orientation.

Cegetista leaders and sympathizers are expected to mobilize tomorrow in Buenos Aires in protest against the decree of necessity and urgency signed by President Javier Milei last week, pending approval by Argentina’s chambers, which represents a practical deregulation of the country’s entire economy.