Huge march of students and teachers: They demanded funds for public universities

The former president left his office and sang Peronist marches from the first floor of the Patria Institute, located a few meters from the National Congress. This was after massive university demonstrations in which thousands of students and teachers demanded that the government guarantee funding for the operation of public universities.

A few minutes earlier, the former President had defined herself as “a daughter and supporter of the public, national and open university.”

He also highlighted that “we are going to conquer again” upward social mobility.

“The public university, the basis of democracy and social development, fights for its survival” is the title of the three-page document that was read at the conclusion of the central event Federal University MarchIn Congress Chowkread by Piera Fernandez De PiccoliChairman of Argentine University Federation (FUA), which had already occupied that place in the mobilization of last 23 April.

Thousands of students and teachers joined the Federal University march in the city of Chubut.

They proceeded from the National University of Patagonia to Plaza San Martín.

The university’s rector, Lidia Blanco, was one of the speakers at the event: “It is a mistake to think of universities as a race. In developed countries they invest two or three times more in these sectors than in Argentina because they know that the difference for development depends on how much more and how better the work is done there,” he said.

The region leader led a group of legislators and leaders who joined him in speaking against the veto.

“Today I’m marching in defense of public education, which I have been a part of for 52 years as a student and professor,” Cario posted on her network.

Vice President Victoria Villarruel expressed herself through her X account during the closing ceremony of the march in defense of the funding of public universities.

“Everything financed by taxes, fees and contributions from the working people of Argentina must be audited to obtain funds from the state. We must take care of what belongs to everyone and stop saving managers’ businesses from fiscal black holes,” the Senate President offered.

“I always support a public and quality university, but without the parasites who trade with it,” he concluded with an image comparing the low number of graduates to that of the National University of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. The financing numbers were displayed.

In this direction, the Justice Ministry targeted the institution. Through its social networks, the portfolio led by Mariano Cuneo Liberona showed official data about this study house.

“Between 2020 and 2023, this portfolio adds $1.5 billion pesos to the budget for the National University of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo,” he said.

According to the ministry, in those 4 years “16 students were gained.” Four of them graduated in 2022, while the other 12 graduated in 2021.

They did not receive any new ones in 2020 and 2023.

Fifteen minutes before 5 pm, from the stage facing the Congress, he began naming the many institutions and political groups that had expressed their support for the mobilization.

March is huge. People defending the funding of university education took part in the demonstration en masse. This image was repeated in different parts of the country.

The lines of the national anthem were played ten minutes before five in the evening. Applause for the protesters was seen in bars around the Congress.

“The forces of heaven are asking you to defend education, because vox populi, vox Dei,” said one of the speakers in turn. The Plaza de los dos Congresos is filled with protesters and the march has been repeated in different parts of the country.

Collective unions existed in the CGT as a variety Federal University in March. Some people took to the streets with columns in greater numbers and others, with participation “Testimonial”. This is another reflection of the union divide that appears in a dialogue wing sealed an agreement Another militant with the government, who resist His policies with opposition.

The president of the Radical Civic Union was the head of the group that emerged from the corner of Tucumán and Callao.

The senator was accompanied by Radicalism Vice President Luis Nadenoff, Senator Pablo Blanco and Buenos Aires Radicalism President Martin Ocampo, among others.

Meanwhile, Senator Maximiliano Abad joined other UCR leaders at the call to Congress, from where he praised the enormity of the march: “A crowd, all over the country, took to the streets to defend their right to learn, to teach.” , to progress, to live in an Argentina that invests in the future.

“This is more than a regional mobilization, it is a declaration of principles of a united people: education is not vetoed,” Abad said.

Facundo ManesFor its part, the idea of ​​financing study houses faced: “Veto This is an attack on identity, on the Argentinian DNA of social advancementAspiring for a better life through education, on the other hand, is a symbol of the economy in the world we live in today. Because the president talks so much about the economy, education is the economy of the 21st century,” the neuroscientist said.

Asked about questions from the ruling party about the political status of the protests, Maines replied: “I think this march Credit for this cannot be given to anyone. It is Argentine society that is responding and Limiting presidential brutality “To attack the identity of our society.”

And he was confident about what pushing for funding legislation would do in Congress: “I’m confident this time It would be sad if many of our parties voted against the university. It is one of the flags, it is one of the causes of fundamentalism today. So I’m very optimistic that even if the President wants to veto this, as representatives we will stop it.”

Furthermore, he completed: “So it is very important that people, even if they do not belong to the university, are here. It is very important that people tell the President that We are not discussing just GDP. Or in one sector of the society, we are discussing the future of our nation.

The former president is a block away from Congress at the headquarters of the Patria Institute, where he once again demonstrated against the presidential veto and adjustments at universities.

“My old man was a labourer, then he was a businessman, always very hard-working, my mother too. And they had one daughter who was a lawyer, another a doctor, and it was this upward social mobility that allowed us to be a different Argentina at one time. But we are going to win again,” the former president said.

“The importance of the march is to accompany the children who come to defend their future, I am not the hero, it is they,” the leader of Frente Renovador said as he walked among the crowd who gathered to defend the funding of Congress. Is moving forward. public university.

The leader avoided elaborating on his statements and contacts with the media and expressed his intention to go along without gaining prominence. Mass mobilization took place in Buenos Aires city center and in various parts of the country.