The first vice president of the Commission for Dialogue, Peace and National Reconciliation of the National Assembly, deputy Luis Eduardo Martínez (AD), highlighted, as positive, the allocation of the nation’s budget of 78% for social issues.
In an interview on the Café en la Mañana program, Martínez highlighted that of that percentage destined for social investment for this 2023, a little more than 20% will be destined for education at all levels, meaning that “this percentage is the higher than anywhere in the world.”
He added that the budget for the national education sector should be higher, with the aim of meeting the needs of Venezuelans, but despite this, it is an important advance in this matter.
Likewise, he indicated that the budget approach for the education sector carried out last October 2022, had adjustments due to the inflationary change, and it was decided, from the national parliament, to anchor the budget to the petro and thus prevent it from being devalued.
On the other hand, he maintained that for this 2023, from the opposition bench, they will propose that the discussion of the protection of wages, salaries and benefits of the public sector, which represent 5 million 500 thousand workers, be a priority, “according to what The Public Sector Budget Law establishes that they deserve better remuneration”.
He also added that another of the proposals on the table is the reclassification of oil revenues, is that they “be reclassified as ordinary, because they have been since 1941, so that the governorates and mayors can receive 71% more than what was originally assigned to them, with which they will be able to do a better management”.
Finally, he stressed that for this 2023, they will seek to protect the approvals of additional credits and respect the anchorage to the petro, so that they do not lose their financial value.
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