The increase derives from a decree signed at the end of February by the president of Argentina himself, who assures that what should have been an agreement to raise salaries of civil servants caused a decree from the time of Cristina Fernández to be "triggered."

The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, announced the dismissal of his Secretary of Labor, Omar Yasín, after this weekend's controversy over the salary increase of up to 48% for members of the Executive.

"I fired the Secretary of Labor; at this moment they are notifying him for this error," Milei said during an interview with the LN+ channel (La Nación).

The president was involved in a controversy after a salary increase for members of the Executive was announced this Saturday, in the midst of the socioeconomic crisis that the country is going through and its adjustment policy for the public coffers.

Finally, the Executive annulled the salary increase approved by decree 206/2024, signed by the president and his chief of staff, Nicolás Posse.