Unions and social organizations will go out this Wednesday to demonstrate in the streets of Buenos Aires to express their rejection of the reforms announced by the new Argentine Government headed by the libertarian economist Javier Mileimost of which will be put to a vote in the National Congress in the coming weeks.
The General Confederation of Labor (CGT), of Peronist inspiration, has called a march for noon this Wednesday in which it will demand the repeal of the urgent need decree (DNU) with which the Milei intends to reform the bases of the country’s economy.
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This decree contains more than 300 reforms designed, according to the Executive, “to return freedom and autonomy to individuals, getting the State off their backs” and additionally “dismantle the enormous amount of regulations that have prevented, hindered and stopped economic growth” from the country.
The mobilization of the country’s main union will be joined by the social organizations that on December 20 staged the first protest against the liberalizing policies that the new Executive calls Bases for the Reconstruction of the Argentine Economy.
On that occasion, the workers’ organizations preferred to remain on the sidelines. But at night, President Milei announced the content of the urgently needed decree on national radio and television. So, the CGT changed his mind and announced the beginning of union protests, which include the presentation of an appeal to Justice to invalidate the DNU.
Last week’s mobilization also served to test a security protocol devised by the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrichto prevent the pickets from blocking traffic on the streets of the Autonomous City of Buenos Airesas has been happening every time social organizations from the province of Buenos Aires They traveled to the capital.
Tomorrow “All the organizations that have participated in the December 20 march and that were pioneers in confronting Bullrich’s repressive protocol and Milei’s adjustment plan, we are going to be in the concentration called by the CGT in Courts“, announced this Tuesday the deputy Gabriel Solanoleader of Workers Party-Left Front.
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In addition to the challenge of obtaining the necessary votes in Parliament, Javier Milei and his cabinet face a cascade of lawsuits against the urgent need decree.
The first to meet showed up the day after I announced it. It was then that several social and union organizations raised the nullity of decree 70/2023, considering that the emergency alleged by the Executive when taking these severe economic measures does not exist.
Since then, the trickle of lawsuits and requests for unconstitutionality of the decree has been increasing.
