This Wednesday, the federal police repressed retirees and demonstrators who were protesting against President Javier Milei’s veto of the pension reform approved last week by the Senate.
The officers began to push the protesters as they were on Rivadavia Avenue, in front of Congress, to force them onto the sidewalk. Faced with the protesters’ reaction, the police began to repress them with tear gas and batons. Videos of the events with testimonies from those involved were quickly shared on social networks.
Retirees demonstrate every Wednesday, but this time the call was bigger because of the veto announced by Milei. This call was launched by the Union of Retirees in Struggle (UTJL), which was joined by neighborhood assemblies, human rights organizations, student movements, organizations of salaried and unemployed workers, combative unions and leaders of the Left Unity Front such as Myriam Bregman and Del Caño.
The march began at 3 p.m. at the Congress. Then, it was to go to the Plaza de Mayo at 5 p.m.
Milei’s veto on pension increases
The President’s office confirmed that Javier Milei will veto the pension increase approved last week by the Senate. He justified his decision by saying that “its only objective is to destroy the government’s economic program” and that the president “has committed to the Argentines to maintain the budget surplus at all costs and he will do so.”
The initiative established an automatic increase in inflation, plus an 8% compensation for the loss of connection at the beginning of the year.
