After the controversy generated because the item to finance the 2026 public budget was not included in the opinion of the public budget Scholarship 18Tec Scholarship and other initiatives that would benefit thousands of students, the former Minister of Economy and Finance (MEF), Luis Miguel Castilla, considered that this situation is a “bad sign” for the sector.
For this reason, he pointed out that the solution to this problem is to resort to the contingency reserve, which is usually used to respond to natural disasters, in order not to affect people.
“What has happened is terrible because there was a call and this is a sensitive issue. This has been an error that has to be corrected and to do so through the reservation only a supreme decree is required,” he added.
He indicated that another way to do it is during the debate in the Plenary Session of Congress that will take place between today and Thursday. However, he warned that this would mean that resources would be withdrawn from another item.
“Within the debate on the budget, a recomposition of the resources that will be allocated to the education sector would have to be made, but for that to happen some other established item would have to be removed,” he highlighted.
For her part, the former executive director of Pronabec, Alexandra Ames, pointed out that there was a written commitment from the Executive to include the budget to address the scholarships, but noted that this issue has not been prioritized.
“The question now is, why doesn’t the current government prioritize this if when it arrived there were already more than 100,000 registered to take the exam? The logical thing is the continuity of a process that had already begun. There was a commitment in the vote of confidence speech,” he highlighted.
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