Trade unions and social organizations will take to the streets this Wednesday to demonstrate in the streets of Buenos Aires to express their rejection of the reforms announced by the new Argentine government led by the ultra-liberal economist Javier Mileimost of which will be voted on in the National Congress in the coming weeks.

The General Confederation of Labor (CGT), inspired by Peronists, has organized a march this Wednesday at 12 noon in which it will demand the withdrawal of the Decree of Urgent Necessity (DNU), with which the Milei intends to destroy the foundations of the economy to reform the country. the country.

This decree contains more than 300 reforms designed according to the executive branch: “to give freedom and autonomy back to individuals, and get the state off their backsAnd furthermore, “dismantle the enormous amount of regulations that have prevented, hindered and halted the country’s economic growth.”

The mobilization of the country’s main trade union will be joined by the social organizations that organized the first protest on December 20 against the liberalizing policies that the new executive calls the basis for the reconstruction of the Argentine economy.

On that occasion, the workers’ organizations preferred to remain on the sidelines. But in the evening, President Milei announced the contents of the urgently needed decree on national radio and television. Then the CGT changed its mind and announced the start of union protests, including the filing of an appeal to the courts to declare the DNU invalid.

Last week’s mobilization also served to test a security protocol established by the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, to prevent pickets from blocking traffic on the streets of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, as has happened every time social organizations from the province of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires traveled to the capital.

Tomorrow, “all organizations that took part in the December 20 march and were pioneers in confronting the repressive Bullrich protocol and the Milei adjustment plan, We are in the concentration evoked by the CGT in the courts“, announced on Tuesday deputy Gabriel Solano, leader of the Workers’ Party-Left Front.

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In addition to the challenge of getting the necessary votes in parliament, Milei and his cabinet are faced with a series of lawsuits 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 issue of the nullity of Decree 70/2023, as they considered that the emergency situation claimed by the executive power when taking these serious economic measures does not exist.

Since then, the number of lawsuits and requests for the unconstitutionality of the decree has increased. (JO)