Social organizations and leaders of the Justicialist Party and the Left Front are taking part in the protest called by the party today CGT against the Labor reform driven by Javier Milei. While the march is taking place, Patricia Bullrich, former security minister and current president of the libertarian bloc in the Senate, is negotiating with the opposition to decide on the ruling party’s project in the upper house today.
The resistance of Peronism is a challenge that is also felt on the streets, where various groups of the Justicialist Party have decided to be present. One of them is The Camporawhich this afternoon is focused on the corner of Avenida de Mayo and Chacabuco. In the middle of the column, between flags, drums and bright blue shirts, the national senator Mariano Recalde accompanied the mobilization against the government initiative, which could be voted on next week. THE NATION He tried to speak to lawmakers, but militants accompanying him assured that he would not speak to the press.
Almost a block further back – where the traffic is only interrupted by the concentration of scattered groups on the side of the road – is the column of the Right to the Future Movement (MDF), referenced in the Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof.
The internal forces that Peronism managed to anesthetize in the last elections in Buenos Aires and at the national level are today with the Kicillofista group and the Maximo Kirchner march separately. They do not share flags or physical space; just a general demand against labor reform.
“It is not the first time that I have taken part in a workers’ march. I have been general secretary of the Ensenada workers’ movement four times and I have called them to this march for all the rights that we do not want to lose,” he said THE NATION Mario SeccoMayor of Ensenada. He mobilizes alongside the MDF column, which is followed by militants from other communal leaders such as: Fernando Espinoza (The Matanza) and Jorge Ferraresi (Avellaneda). With its different aspects, the Justicialist Party has taken control of two blocks of Avenida de Mayo.
“(The labor reform) is a setback. It is not the first time that I have cited something like this. We have already done it with the De La Rúa labor reform.” There is nothing really good about this reform for workers“continues Secco as he waits for his column to reach Plaza de Mayo, where most social organizations and unions are concentrated.
There, in front of the town hall and after noon, trade unions such as: Ctera (by teachers) and groups like Standing neighborhoodsthe union of workers of the national economy (UTEP) and the Avoid exercise. Their white and blue banners and pennants conquered the cityscape early on. “For every formal job lost in Argentina, four or five are lost from the informal economy. This call goes beyond the CGT and unionized workers. It goes even beyond Peronism,” Nicolás Villarreal of the Evita movement told this medium.
Where he was, in the epicenter of the Plaza de Mayo, the march proceeded as normal, with no incidents except for a few Clashes between Uocra columns and truck drivers.
The same did not happen on July 9, where at least a hundred officers guarded the mobilization and, according to some in attendance, sprayed it Pepper spray Some of the demonstrators demanded the liberation of one of the central alleys of 9 de Julio. Gustavo, one of those present when the confrontation began, said that police tried to clear that lane and that, with traffic at a standstill on Avenida de Mayo, the columns could not advance far enough to clear the road and used pepper spray to disperse concentration.
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