Deputies presented a draft resolution repudiating Milei’s statements against Perfil

2024-04-10 19:55:00

Deputies of Union for the Homeland presented a project of resolution before the president’s expressions Javier Miley, who celebrated an eventual bankruptcy of PERFIL. For the legislators, the president exposed “his contempt for information pluralism, freedom of expression and the professional performance of hundreds of press workers.”

After the Head of State mocked the possibility of the medium going bankrupt and even insulted its owner, Jorge Fontevecchia, the deputies of Unión por la Patria (UxP) stated: “It turns out inadmissiblewithin the framework of a brutal public budget adjustment to different social sectors – among them, the culture and communication sectors – the President celebrates that a media group might go bankrupt, something that clearly It would affect information plurality, freedom of expression and the sources of employment of hundreds of press workers. “It is known that the aforementioned media group has a clear independent tradition, with views not aligned with government efforts.”

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In addition, they highlighted that it is not the first time that they have conflicts with journalists and cited the cases of Débora Plager, Pablo Duggan, Fabián Doman, Paulo Vilouta and Martín Candalaftwhom he even took to court “for damages” in 2023 and demanded million-dollar compensation for their opinions and criticisms.

Likewise, they pointed out the “autocratic attitudes” of the libertarian leader, who, for the deputies, go beyond the limits of democratic coexistence, as are their attempts to dismantle the public news generation system (Agencia Télam), to turn off the screen of Public Television and to suffocate the budget of Radio Nacional. They also highlighted the suspension of the allocation of official advertising, and insults to prominent communicators by top-level officials.

In closing, the Peronist deputies who requested the resolution -José Pablo Carro, Gisela Marziotta, Leopoldo Moreau, Juan Manuel Pedrini, Brenda Vargas Matyi, Hugo Yasky, Natalia Zaracho-, insisted: “It is inadmissible to wish for the bankruptcy of a company that “It would leave a stream of qualified unemployed.” And they asked their peers to accompany the approval of this project.

Milei’s criticism of the newspaper Perfil

In the extensive three-hour interview granted to Alejandro Fantino in your program Nerves Media, Javier Milei provided various definitions, including his attack on Perfil: “They said that we were going to steal the data, things that never happened, and, however, the ‘Tinturelli’ newspaper uses the data to send you emails, for example . I have already asked several times that they no longer send me the things from their pamphlet and, yet, they continue to send it to me.” Likewise, laughing, he maintained that the media “Perfil already went bankrupt once and was saved by a businessman, then the politicians saved him and now since he has no guideline he is going bankrupt.”

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Fontevecchia responded to the president: “We are going to tell the President: the military dictatorship might not break us, Menem at the time of the 30 trials, the murder of José Luis Cabezas, nor might Néstor Kirchner put zero official publicity, so you won’t be able to break us either”.

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