Protests call for greater social aid in Argentina one month before the legislative elections

Demonstrators of left-wing social organizations not related to the Peronist government of Alberto Fernández marched en masse this Thursday in Argentina demanding genuine work, more social aid and less public adjustment one month after the legislative elections of November 14 are held. next.

The organizations that make up the Unidad Piquetera coalition mobilized thousands of people to cut off seven accesses to Buenos Aires and carry out actions in more than 150 parts of the country.

The organizers demand a public works plan for the generation of one million jobs, updating due to inflation and the universal opening of social programs and the provision of more food and an improvement in the quality of soup kitchens.

The Piquetera Unit carried out this march after a “national hunger strike” that they had carried out on October 6, which followed a series of mass demonstrations held before the Ministry of Social Development, since Juan Zabaleta took office last August. , with similar demands.

The organizers explain that this new march takes place more than a month after they presented Zabaleta, without obtaining a response, a genuine employment program based on housing construction, public works, environmental care, care tasks and lines for face gender violence.

Social demonstrations have increased this year in Argentina, given the economic crisis that the country is going through -when it turned three years of recession in 2020, registering an annual inflation of 51.4% last August and poverty of 40.6% in the first semester – and on the eve of the primary elections of last September, in which the ruling party suffered a severe defeat, and legislative elections of next November.

“We took to the streets in the continuity of a plan of struggle that is going to deepen with camps and even stronger actions in the coming weeks because the government has oriented its policy to the continuity and deepening of an adjustment that leads not only to the workers but the whole country to disaster, “said the leader of the Polo Obrero Eduardo Belliboni to Prensa Obrera.

The mobilization considers an electoral maneuver the proposals launched by the Fernández government to “change social plans for work”, regarding the program to involve workers who collect employment plans in the construction sector without losing benefits and the bill with the same idea, but with economic stimuli aimed at SMEs.

These organizations also consider that the Government has ratified an adjustment to the service of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said Belliboni, to renegotiate the 45,000 million debt that Argentina owes.