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Left-wing and Peronist picketers mobilize in Congress against the Bases Law, and challenge Patricia Bullrich's protocol - Infobae
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Piqueteros de izquierda y peronistas se movilizan al Congreso contra la Ley Bases, y desafían el protocolo de Patricia Bullrich
Las principales columnas de la UTEP llegarán a las inmediaciones del Palacio Legislativo a las 15. Las protestas contra la frustrada Ley Ómnibus debatida en febrero generó graves incidentes con las fuerzas federales. El Ministerio de Seguridad desplegará un fuerte dispositivo para impedir el...
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April 29, 2024
The main columns of the UTEP will arrive near the Legislative Palace at 3:00 p.m. The protests against the frustrated Omnibus Law debated in February generated serious incidents with federal forces. The Ministry of Security will deploy a strong device to prevent the blocking of surrounding streets
By Andres Klipphan
It is expected that the anti-picket protocol will be applied in the vicinity of Congress (Gustavo Gavotti)
The social movements and left-wing picketers will march to Congress today to demonstrate against the Bases Law that will begin to be debated in the Chamber of Deputies at noon and will take place less than a month after the call for the Pact of May 25, motorized by president Javier Milei .
“We mobilized in Congress to express our rejection of the Base Law, which deepens the removal of the rights of workers as a whole, attacks national sovereignty and the defense of our natural resources. The government clearly continues to seek greater powers and attributes to advance this agenda that harms the working class and benefits the always living, the true caste ”, highlighted from the Union Workers of the Popular Economy (UTEP), whose general secretary is Alejandro Gramajo .
Furthermore, they emphasize that the project, which obtained majority consensus last Wednesday in the plenary session of commissions, “eliminates the social monotax; funds for integration works in popular neighborhoods; it takes away the possibility of retirement through moratorium from many colleagues; legitimizes any action by the security forces until its illegality is proven; “It shrinks the state instead of making it more efficient and withdraws delegations from the provinces.” They also oppose “delegated powers.”
The columns of the UTEP, made up of, among other organizations, the Evita Movement, Somos Barrios de Pie, the Classist and Combative Current (CCC) and the Movement of Excluded Workers (MTE), will begin to gather in Plaza Congreso between 3 and 4 p.m. hours.
File photo taken on February 2, 2024, of Argentine deputies while participating in the plenary session in which the debate on the 'omnibus law' was resumed, in Buenos Aires (Argentina). EFE/ Matías Martín Campaya
Nicolás Caropresi , a representative of the MTE, told Infobae about the bill promoted by La Libertad Avanza and which already foundered in February due to a lack of consensus in the vote in particular: “They want to change the course with a swerve, but it is very unclear at the moment. where they want to take us. Because we would think that it is okay to give absolute powers to those who, from one day to the next, inventing complaints, decide to cut off the food supply to at least a million people ; who decided to stop the work of access to services, such as electricity, water or sewage in popular neighborhoods without further ado; "Those who try to destroy cooperatives that have been generating more or less decent living standards for thousands who were eating from the garbage for more than a decade."
Meanwhile, the MTE representative added: “There are central elements of our sector that will be modified with this law. The first is that they are going to eliminate the social monotax , the only way to generate retirement contributions for thousands who earn just above poverty."
Caropresi stated that the UTEP is also mobilizing against the “definitive elimination of the socio-urban integration fund and because it intends to modify and deepen the repressive strategies of the popular demonstration , rights that people like Patricia Bullrich, Javier Milei and others have used to call the attention when they did not agree with policies that they characterized as unjust.”
On February 1, 2 and 3, during the debate of the so-called Law Bases and Starting Points for the Freedom of Argentines in the Lower House, clashes were recorded between protesters who reacted against the federal forces who tried to enforce the protocol anti-picketing and evicting them from Rivadavia Avenue near Callao. They also set fire to garbage containers and homeless people's mattresses. Prefecture, Federal Police, members of the PSA and Gendarmerie responded with rubber bullets, fire hydrant trucks, shovels, the Motorized White Brigade and pepper spray. There were injuries and arrests.
(Nicolas Stulberg)
Today the Ministry of National Security, headed by Patricia Bullrich , will deploy a strong police force to prevent the blocking of the streets surrounding the Legislative Palace.
The last time it was attempted to apply was on April 23 during the march in defense of the university budget. The number of attendees was so overwhelming that, from the command center that the official has set up in the facilities of the Federal Police headquarters, Bullrich and his collaborators decided to withdraw the troops from the streets. The volume of the call, driven by a claim that reached broad social sectors, forced La Libertad Avanza to reduce the protocol to its minimum expression.
This afternoon's march will be a new fight between the picketers and social leaders and the agents of the federal forces.
“The Bases Law against which we demonstrate against aims to end plunging us deeper and deeper into poverty where each of the governors, senators or representatives of the dialogue opposition have their own interests,” Mónica said when asked by this medium. Sulle , National Coordinator of the MST-Teresa Vive and stated that: “ The CGT leadership should have called the strike for today , and with mobilization of all workers, and not only discuss not taking the benefit of the union dues that is your box. We have a union bureaucracy that is worried about how the May 1 march is going to be organized and the honorary event is today and tomorrow to stop this law that the Government wants to impose in an onslaught .”
Myriam Bregman, the left-wing deputy, did not support the drafting of the Omnibus Law: "This is breaking the Employment Contract law as we know it," she said (Gustavo Gavotti)
“ Enough of Milei , let the CGT call for a strike and a plan of struggle,” is the slogan with which picketing organizations and leftist movements such as the Polo Obrero, the Frente de Izquierda Unidad and the MST will mobilize.
“The piquetero Movement, together with the combative unionism with the popular and neighborhood assemblies and the left, we are going with everything to this mobilization. We have to make this bill fall," said Eduardo Belliboni , leader of the Polo Obrero and called for "the citizens who mobilized together with the students, with the students, to the CGT that should have launched a national strike and the continuity of a plan of struggle because what is at stake with this law is a lot and clearly all workers should be on the streets mobilized with a national strike.”
The bill, which will include the fiscal package, which also had the ok in committee, was ready to be debated in the chamber after long weeks of frenetic negotiations in which La Libertad Avanza left behind several items that the Executive Branch had included in the original text that was modified several times to achieve consensus with the “dialogue” sectors. The CGT also obtained several concessions from the ruling party in the Labor Reform chapter. For example, the elimination of article 98 of the Executive Branch draft that established penalties of 6 months to 3 years in prison for those who block companies . A methodology that is usually used by the Truck Drivers union led by Hugo and Pablo Moyano .
The decision was adopted after a request from deputy Miguel Ángel Pichetto , head of the We Make Federal Coalition bloc, with the argument that “ nothing that affects the CGT” should not be included in the project .
The picketing and social movements will also protest against the fiscal package, which includes the Income Tax and money laundering.
The ruling party had to sacrifice an important battery of articles in order to reach a ruling that was “signable” by the forces of the dialogue opposition. For example, it eliminated the article on economic deregulation, removed the entire chapter on Defense of Competition, reduced the emergency declarations to four and reduced the list of companies subject to privatization to just eight, leaving out Banco Nación.
During the university march, the anti-picketing protocol was not applied
La Libertada Avanza also agreed to expand the list of State organizations safe from any attempt at dissolution and eliminated the chapter on consolidation of titles of the ANSES Sustainability Guarantee Fund that enabled the sale of shares.
Despite compacting the project, there was still a text of 240 articles and 162 pages , which will be considered in the venue for at least two days.
The Kirchnerist and left-wing deputies did not accompany the vote on the new wording of the new Bases Law agreed upon by the majority of the committee deputies. National deputy Myriam Bregman , leader of the Socialist Workers Party (PTS), questioned whether the wording of the bill enables “the labor cessation fund that governs the UOCRA and its extension to the rest of the labor market.” According to her, she explained to this medium: “The regime in question enables the employer to withhold 8% of the worker's salary and create a reserve so that, at the time of dismissal, you pay your own compensation . “This is breaking the Employment Contract law as we know it,” she said.
Today will be another hot and intense day outside and inside Congress .
