2023-12-27 04:42:21
Buenos Aires Correspondent
This Wednesday at noon, the CGT, in coordination with the two CTA, plus the support of different social movements and left-wing parties and unions, will mobilize at the Palace of Justice in repudiation of the DNU of deregulation of the economy dictated by President Javier Milei. The labor union will present an injunction with the aim of stopping the government’s measure.
“The objective is for the DNU to not continue its course,” defined this Tuesday Héctor Daer, one of the three general secretaries of the CGT. The union leader made statements before entering Congress, where the Cegetista leadership held a meeting with the interblock of senators from Unión por la Patria, to discuss parallel actions, always with the objective of preventing DNU 70 from coming into force.
The call for the CGT to march to Plaza Lavalle, in the Buenos Aires macro-center, was formalized last week, following a meeting of the National Board of Directors, where another step was also defined: on Thursday the Confederal of the CGT will meet, plenary where the members of the Board of Directors plus all the general secretaries of the cegetist regional organizations throughout the country coincide. The Confederal meeting is key: Daer announced that there, in the highest deliberative body of the CGT, “an action plan” to overthrow the DNU will be discussed, and it is not ruled out that a general strike will be voted on. “Not only a strike (will be discussed), but a fight plan: the objective is for the DNU to not continue its course, the rest are instruments to achieve that objective,” he defined.
On Tuesday the CGT held coordination meetings for the march with different union and social organizations. It was reported that large unions such as UOCRA, SMATA, UOM, the state unions of UPCR, health, truck drivers and commerce, among others, will mobilize.
The mobilization implies a great challenge for the national government, which on December 20 launched the anti-picket protocol designed by the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich.
The former presidential candidate of Together for Change, reiterated the warnings she issued last week, when she followed the march of the Polo Obrero and the Piquetera Unit (of no more than five thousand protesters) from the Federal Police headquarters together with President Milei. The Minister of Security insisted that she will cancel the social plans of those who block streets during the CGT march.
“This Government took office 16 days ago and this is the third demonstration,” Bullrich complained regarding the Cegetista call.
The minister asked “all Argentine citizens, and especially workers, to understand that this Government is dismantling a corporate model, which only benefits a few, and has left millions of workers out of formal work.”
Presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni was also defiant regarding the CGT march: “line 134 remains open for those who feel extorted to go and mobilize,” he said. He warned that the Government will use “all the deterrent measures” at its disposal, such as the public order protocol.
“On this path of Argentines who want a different country, there are others who do not want to change, who announce marches and protests, and there you will see who is defending their own interests and those who want to benefit from the status quo,” he said. Adorni. He admitted in the usual press conference at Casa Rosada that the mobilization was the subject of “chat and debate” at this morning’s Cabinet meeting.
Daer was asked regarding the government’s warnings: “Fear, no. What we don’t want is a show. The country is not for this type of tension. The president came out with adjectives, and Argentina is not up for irony; the situation is serious. From the president to us we have to provide absolute seriousness,” said Daer. He explained that the CGT will present a judicial protection (they estimate that the appeal might reach the Supreme Court) and then a document will be read in Plaza Lavalle.
And the anti-picket protocol? A CGT leader commented that a plan was presented to the Buenos Aires Government, with the places where each union will concentrate and along which avenues they will march towards the Court Palace. “The sidewalks in Buenos Aires are narrow,” joked Hugo “Cachorro” Godoy, head of the Autonomous CTA, regarding the imposition of the Bullrich protocol that restricts street demonstrations.
Left-wing political and union groups will join the march, but they will do so “as an independent block, under the slogans of active national strike and plan of struggle; below the DNU, the Protocol and the Omnibus Law; “no to the Milei and IMF adjustment plan and no layoffs.” The PTS Frente de Izquierda, the Polo Obrero and Unidad Piquetera, among others, called to Plaza Lavalle for 11 a.m.
The judicialization of the DNU
On Tuesday, the Federal Administrative Litigation jurisdiction accumulated eight protections once morest the DNU of economic deregulation.
The constitutional lawyer Andrés Gil Domínguez presented a “declaratory action of unconstitutionality” once morest the Decree of Necessity and Urgency 70/2023, published in the Official Gazette on December 21 with a request for a precautionary measure to suspend its effects until the ruling is issued. definitive.
Gil Dominguez requested that “a judgment be issued promptly declaring the unconstitutionality and absolute and irremediable nullity” of the decree. He also demanded the issuance of a precautionary measure that suspends its effects until there is a final ruling.
“The National Executive Branch, through the issuance of the DNU, uses an exceptional legislation mechanism provided for by art. 99.3 of the Argentine Constitution – of restrictive interpretation and application – to comprehensively replace the legislative function through the abuse of public law and the diversion of power,” denounced the constitutionalist.
The Association of State Workers (ATE) criminally denounced President Javier Milei, along with “all those involved” in the preparation of the DNU and accused them of having committed abuse of authority and “several crimes.”
“The crime typified in art. 29 of the National Constitution, which establishes the responsibility and punishment of infamous traitors to the country who carry out acts that involve assuming the sum of public power or that place the President in a position of supremacy for which life, honor or fortunes of the Argentines remain at the mercy of them and their Government,” they said in ATE.
The national government announced yesterday the reduction of contracts for state employees signed in 2023. ATE will also mobilize the Courts in repudiation of the dismissal of “7 thousand National Public Administration workers.”
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