CGT march against Milei’s DNU, LIVE | last minute of protests in Argentina

Unions and social organizations march through the streets of Buenos Aires this Wednesday to express their rejection of the reforms announced by the new government of Argentina led by ultraliberal economist Javier Milei, most of which will be put to a vote in the National Congress in the coming weeks. The General Labor Confederation (CGT), of Peronist inspiration, has called for a march in the middle of this century which will demand the derogation of the decree of urgent need (DNU) with which Milei intends to reform the bases of the economy. Country.

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This decree contains more than 300 renovations designed, according to the Executive, “to return freedom and autonomy to individuals, taking the State off their backs” and additionally “dismantle the enormous amount of regulations that have impeded, hindered and stopped the country’s economic growth.

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A mobilization The country’s main union will be joined by social organizations that on December 20 held the first protest against the liberalizing policies that the new Executive calls Bases for the reconstruction of the Argentine economy.

Members of the construction workers union (UOCRA) protest against President Javier Milei’s emergency decree in Argentina. (Photo by Luis ROBAYO/AFP). (LUIS ROBAYO/)

At that time, workers’ organizations preferred to remain on the sidelines. But at night, the president Milei announced the content of the urgently needed decree on national radio and television. Then The CGT changed its mind and announced the start of union protests, which include the presentation of an appeal to the Court to invalidate the DNU.

Last week’s mobilization also served to test a security protocol drawn up by the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrichto prevent pickets from blocking traffic on the streets of the Autonomous City of Buenos Airesas has been happening whenever social organizations from the province of Buenos Aires travel to the capital.

Tomorrow “all the organizations that participated in the march on December 20th and that were pioneers in confronting the repressive protocol of Bullrich and the adjustment plan Mileiwe will be at the concentration called by the CGT in the Courts”, announced this Tuesday the deputy Gabriel Solanoleader of Left Front of the Workers’ Party.

In addition to the challenge of obtaining the necessary votes in Parliament, Milei and his office face a series of legal actions against the urgently needed decree.

The first one to meet showed up the day after I announced it. It was then that several social and trade union organizations raised the nullity of decree 70/2023, considering that the emergency claimed by the Executive when taking these severe economic measures does not exist.

Since then, the flow of lawsuits and requests for the decree’s unconstitutionality has been increasing.

Source: Elcomercio