Despite this “budgetary blanket”, the spending needs are many and have become evident. In the area of higher education, the SHCP applied a cut of 10,268 million pesos in the 2025 Budget Project and, of these, only UNAM had to adjust its projected spending by 5,000 million pesos.
The reductions were also applied to the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), the Autonomous University of Chapingo and universities in the states of Sinaloa, Morelos, Colima, Guadalajara and Veracruz, among others.
The reductions were a “regrettable mistake” according to the Treasury. He offered to restore money to all of them and to UNAM and IPN even an increase of 3.5%.
That’s why the rest of those affected are on the catwalk.
The Income Law, the Fiscal Miscellany and the Expenditure Budget are the financial and economic instruments of the Mexican State. Its analysis and integration are complex, due to the priorities that President Claudia Sheinbaum has expressed.
To talk about the topic, today… pic.twitter.com/DsHd8xoXhT— Ricardo Monreal A. (@RicardoMonrealA)
November 21, 2024
On November 20, in private, the rectors of the Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca (UABJO), Cristian Eder Carreño; from the Autonomous University of Chiapas (UNACH), Carlos Faustino Natarén; and that of the Autonomous University of Guerrero (UAGro), Javier Saldaña, met with the Morenista leader, Ricardo Monreal.
During the meeting, Monreal asked them to tighten their belts: “I have emphasized that it is necessary to enter, to venture into a scenario of profound austerity,” he told them.
“They should review their expenses and costs, because it is increasingly complicated to have that type of, I would say, luxuries or excesses that public universities also have to undergo an austerity program,” he added.
Last Tuesday, Cindy Winkler, a representative of the Green Party, advocated for the universities: “with the voice of the rectors: the budget is not enough for the universities,” and recalled that Morelos alone already has a deficit of 450 million pesos and now a cut will be added.
On November 22, it was the turn of mayors of the Mixteca of Oaxaca. They went to the Chamber of Deputies to ask for more resources from PT legislators, they returned empty-handed.
“We are going to make the channels so that your demands are met,” PT Ana Karina Rojo offered them, but her coordinator, Reginaldo Sandoval, was absent, who will have a vote in the ruling in commissions and none of them spread the demand, at least on their social networks. of resources.
On November 26, a group of mayors, especially from Morelos and Puebla, called for more budget at a dialogue table to address the issue of federalized spending.
The same day it was the turn of the elected governor of Jalisco, Pablo Lemus, accompanied by deputies from the Citizen Movement (MC). They issued an alert at a press conference: “the 139 billion pesos estimated for 2025 are insufficient.”
In addition, the same National Association of Universities and Higher Education Institutions (ANUIES) met with deputies on November 28, but at an event to deliver its audited financial statements and from there it also made a request for more funds.
Monreal has also met with magistrates of agrarian courts and different representatives of public entities.
