2023-12-20 00:58:00
Only on the first day since telephone line 134 was enabled, the presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adorni, reported that The Government received more than 4,000 calls, “at a rate of 300 complaints per hour”. The service was made available to beneficiaries of social plans “who feel that they are being threatened” to participate in this Wednesday’s march to Plaza de Mayo.
“To date we have received 4,310 complaints, and we are receiving at a rate of 300 complaints per hour on line 134,” Adorni stated in a video published on the official account of the Presidential Spokesperson on the X network (formerly Twitter).
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The presidential spokesperson also explained that line 134 is “available to each of the beneficiaries of social plans who feel that they are being threatened” to participate in the protest that social organizations will carry out tomorrow in Plaza de Mayo. Likewise, he assured that “The only people who can lose state aid are those who infringe and break the law”.
In this context, it was officially reported that The national government is “monitoring the state of the situation in relation to the march” announced by picket organizations for this Wednesday, December 20. To this end, “the Ministries of Human Capital and Security, and the Ministry of Transportation, dependent on the Infrastructure portfolio, work in a coordinated manner to implement preventive measures in favor of the population.”
Likewise, it was reiterated that “The Public Order protocol of the Ministry of Security and the resolution of the Ministry of Human Capital are in force”. The preventive measures will be communicated “also on posters at train stations and entrances to subway stations,” and “controls will be established at accesses to the City.”
In the press conference that Adorni gave, he had reiterated that the 134 telephone line was going to be open to “receive complaints from those who feel threatened by an intermediary.” In this regard, he commented that they recorded cases of “people who are threatened with having to do extra work and even pay fines of 7 thousand pesos if they don’t go to the marches as the social leaders tell them to do.”
And he added: “There are complaints that indicate that they force children to take to the marchthat if they do not bring children they will also lose the benefit and there are also complaints regarding the loss of part of the benefit and part of what they receive under the Empower Work Plan.
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In a message to beneficiaries of social programs, he encouraged: “We will be with those who comply with the law, “We are willing to support each one of you.” “The only people who can lose State aid are those who infringe and break the law, who block the street or who commit acts of violence,” the official clarified.
Regarding the right to demonstrate, he maintained that it is “respected”, but clarified that “it is a constitutional right as long as it does not impede free movement or affect public order.” “The right to demonstrate cannot curtail the right to free movement. They will be able to demonstrate in parks, squares, and even on each of the sidewalks,” he commented.
Regarding the security protocol established by the minister of the area, Patricia Bullrich, she anticipated that “they will be working to enforce it” the Argentine Federal Police, Gendarmerie, the Airport Security Police, Prefecture and the Police of the City of Buenos Aires.
The Government made line 134 available to “report intermediaries in social plans”
This Tuesday, the national government made telephone line 134 available to beneficiaries of social plans so that they can “report intermediaries” from organizations that threaten or attempt to coerce them on them in exchange for them attending marches.
In his usual press conference and on the eve of a mobilization scheduled for this Wednesday, which promises to be massive, Adorni expressed: “Those who receive a plan or benefits will not only not be asked for the requirements that until then were requested, where the intermediary took the opportunity to do business with each of you, but rather Line 134 will be open for anyone who feels threatened by any intermediary“.
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The line will aim for a technical team to collect complaints once morest leaders, political leaders or those who “threaten” the beneficiaries with withdrawal from the plan in case of not counting their attendance in street protests. “Do not believe them and call line 134, we have a team prepared for each of the cases and act accordingly,” the presidential spokesperson remarked, and added: “The plan is not going to be cut off.”
Along the same lines, he asked: “Stay at home and if you are going to march, which is a constitutional right, do so as the law establishes and let us respect Patricia Bullrich’s security protocol,” in reference to the guidelines once morest picketing that the minister announced days ago.
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“We Argentines come from a logic of 20 years of having become accustomed to the fact that the streets were not ours, of those who wanted to move freely, of those of us who were going to work or of those of us who wanted to walk without the traffic being interrupted or without our passage being impeded and it is difficult to get used to this logic,” he stated.
“Free movement must be guaranteed”Adorni insisted, while warning that whoever obstructs traffic or identifies themselves in any mobilization that gives rise to chaos in the streets will no longer perceive their social plan. “Argentina has to get used to a normality as simple as strict compliance with the law,” he stressed.
Without a law in Congress, the “anti-picketing” protocol would set off alarms in Justice due to possible unconstitutionality
For his part, although he avoided giving details regarding the application of the public order protocol announced by the Minister of Security, the spokesperson stated that the right “is not curtailed neither for those who want to circulate nor for those who want to demonstrate”.
The decision was announced on the eve of the protest that will take place tomorrow in downtown Buenos Aires. once morest the adjustment plan promoted by President Javier Milei.
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