The union of public officials and the ruling party are working on an increase of 15% for the sector. This will be applied in the PGN 2023. Some of the measures include labor deprecarization (temporary jobs become permanent) among other benefits.
Hugo Velázquez himself, Vice President of the Republic, was the one who signed the document of understanding during the fortnight of March. This meeting became public because it was disclosed on social networks and later confirmed by the authorities.
The Vice President was consulted on the point on Tuesday morning, he replied that if Congress approves new increases, Abdo will end up vetoing them.
PLAIN BLAS
Blas Llano, a national senator for the PLRA, affirmed that the measure is absolutely irrational, since seeking an increase in the salary of public officials after passing a pandemic is unfeasible.
“It has had a very strong impact on the economy in all sectors. We are just leaving and we find ourselves with the rise in fuel prices as a result of the increase in barrels due to the war. At this point, raising an increase is suicide,” he warned.
Llano lamented that public officials earn twice as much as private sector officials. Not counting the 4 to 6 hours that the former work and the 8 hours that the latter work.
“We are once again going to privilege a sector that every month has the security of collecting their salaries. But who thinks of the people who sell products on the street. We are all going to pay,” she questioned.
Regarding Carla Bacigalupo’s meetings with the Coordinator of Public Officials, she pointed out that there is nowhere to get money to pay the increases they are requesting and she fears that the point will end up again in more loans.
“Who pays the loans? There are more than 300,000 civil servants, among whom an important group does not contribute much. The housing economy does not work like that, and even less so in the economy of a country”, he stated.
He finally said that raising salaries in the public sector is equivalent to a double punishment for Paraguayan men and women; since, in the first place, money is taken from them that they do not even have to attend to the most basic of their needs, and in the second place, this contributes to the general increase in prices, in a scenario in which inflation and the loss of money value. This ultimately translates into a deterioration in quality of life.
