According to a statement from the organization, the demonstration will take place at 13:00 local time around headquarters of the Cabinet of Ministers in Buenos Aires.
The DNU was announced on Wednesday night by the president, and is aimed at reforming or repealing more than 300 regulations. Hundreds of people reject it, taking to the streets in several cities and heading to the Congress headquarters in the capital to express their discontent.
Last night there were protests in several cities like Córdoba, Rosario, La Plata and again in Buenos Aires. The police in Córdoba violently repressed the demonstrations with tear gas, batons and rubber bullets; made arrests.
Politicians, deputies, social and union organizations pointed out that these are unconstitutional measures, against the rule of law and the division of powers, since they ignore the powers of the Legislature.
The megadecree “includes the privatization of state companies, market deregulation and labor reform.
“Milei decided to govern by DNU and destroy Parliament. Most of the proposals coincide with the economic objectives of the last military dictatorship,” the general secretary of the State Employees Union (ATE, in Spanish), Rodolfo Aguiar, denounced.
“Cynicism is beginning to be political in Argentina. There is talk of miserable salaries, but since December 10th, not a single action has been announced in favor of workers and retirees,” ATE leader further said.
And added that “the Government is trying to auction off the State to the highest bidder. We have to avoid it. An unlimited liberation of all prices is established, which ends up destroying the purchasing power of the people.”
For their part, the deputies of Unión por la Patria (Union for the Homeland) warned that the DNU violates the powers of Congress and grants the Executive extraordinary powers, banned by the Constitution. “It is (…) null and void.
“Those who approve it will be infamous traitors to the Homeland. In the face of the complicit silence of some, our bloc will defend democracy, the division of powers and the Republic. Argentina does not need a (Alberto) Fujimori (former Peruvian president)”, a statement from the bench indicates.
The Justicialist Party in turn denounced that the DNU “is null and unconstitutional, it overwhelms the institutions of democracy, destroys small and medium-sized businesses and surrenders national sovereignty. The president decreed more anguish, poverty and unemployment.”
The president’s actions do not respect the minimum republican parameters. Therefore, in defense of the working people: unity of action, responsibility and patriotism are required, it stated.
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