The government of Javier Milei denounced social organizations for the alleged commission of “extortion” and “fraud” against the State in the management of state assistance plans and demanded that 14 groups pay approximately $75,000 for the costs of the security operation last Wednesday, the day of the first mobilization against the new Executive, official sources confirmed.
“We have made the complaint in the courts federal for the crimes of extortion and fraud to the State for the management of social plans“, announced this Friday the spokesperson for the Presidency, Manuel Adorniin his morning press conference at the Casa Rosada (seat of Government).
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According to Adorni, the authorities have identified and denounced 32 people belonging to different social organizations calling for the march against the Government’s economic shock plan. The case is already being processed in federal court No. 7 in Criminal and Correctional Matters and is in charge of the judge Sebastian Casanello and the federal prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita.
The case arose after the Government will enable days ago a telephone line was created to process complaints of threats from social leaders against beneficiaries of assistance planswho supposedly were forced to participate in the protest under the threat of not receiving aid if they did not do so.
The line received 15,900 calls, of which 1,100 “they fit that typology” of crime, according to the authorities.
In addition, social organizations will be charged the costs of the security operation deployed to control Wednesday’s protest, during which about 3,000 people They marched through the center of the Argentine capital to show their rejection of the adjustment policies and cuts in public spending of the Government of Milei.
According to a report from the Ministry of Security, 14 social organizations to pay 60,000,000 pesos (about $74,557) for the deployed device. The amount to be charged corresponds to the fuel consumption and the “average man hours” employed in the operation, in which members of the Federal Police and Gendarmerie participated.
“This will be the bill that we will pass to social organizations. We are going to notify them so that they take charge of this expense that does not correspond to the citizens.“, advertisement Adorni.
Asked about the possible call for a general strike by the General Confederation of Labor (CGTPeronist union), the spokesperson for the Presidency pointed out that for the Government it is not a “true fact” that there may be a general strike of the country’s main unions. The Executive keeps open “dialogue channels permanently”accurate.
After knowing last Wednesday night the decree of urgent need (DNU) with which the president Milei aims to lay the foundations for the reconstruction of the Argentine economy through economic deregulation and the reversal of the fiscal deficit, voices of rejection of the stabilization plan are growing, since the workers’ centers consider that the Executive’s measures cut social and labor rights.
The Peronist General Central of Workers (CGT), which until now has remained on the sidelines of the mobilizations, has called a march for Wednesday, December 27 in which it will demand the repeal of the decree, which has been published in the official gazette, but without an entry date into force. validity.
