One in every three inhabitants of the population implanted in our Malvinas Islands, estimated at about 2,200 people; He has an employment relationship of direct dependence on the British government coffers for his economic support. Currently, the illegitimate government that administers the archipelago has a state staff complement of 743 people, and taking into account a recent increase, that number will rise to 764 starting in the second half of 2021. The figure, revealed by a illegitimate legislator who leaves office after 16 years of exercising it, Roger Edwards , thus implies that of the total of just over 2,500 settlers who occupy Malvinas housing, more than 30.5% work and live from the usurpation government. “Four years ago we had 634 people working in the government.
This has meant that the government's salaries have increased from £26m to £33m. And that increase in the sector will continue to grow year after year,” Edwards complained bitterly in a kind of farewell message reproduced by the pro-British Uruguayan media MercoPress. The soon-to-be former settler parliamentarian took the opportunity to alert those running for election in November to renew the Legislative Assembly to “take careful note of these figures and think about where we are heading, if we continue on that path.”
Privileged public employees For the financial year that begins on July 1, Malvinas manages a budget with operating expenses of £78.3 million (95.4 million dollars = 14,514 million pesos) and income of GBP £92.2 million (112.4 million dollars = 17,090,880 million pesos). In a breakdown released by themselves, they mention spending on health of £24.6 million, infrastructure and communications of £11.6 million and education of £10.1 million. But they mention nothing of the main expense they must face, that of salaries in the state sector, which amounts, as was said, to £33 million, more than a third of the expected income. For a comparative understanding of what is spent in the Malvinas, a recent survey shows that 6 Latin American countries spend an average of 6.4% of their GDP on state employment. Argentina leads that group with 12.7% of its gross domestic product, Brazil 11.8%, while Chile, Uruguay, Peru and Mexico between 6 and 7%.
While in the occupied islands today more than 30.5% of their population depends on a government salary, in Argentina that figure is 18.6%, the highest in the region according to statistics from recent years. In that table, Venezuela, Panama and Uruguay follow with very similar numbers. And at the other extreme, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Colombia are the nations with the lowest proportion of state employment, between approximately 4 and 6%.
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