Stella Calloni

Correspondent

The newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, August 24, 2024, p. 22

Buenos Aires., President Javier Milei vetoed last night the law passed in the Senate that increased the amount paid to retirees, among other benefits, with the argument that the money spent on the pension system affects the present and future of young peopleconsidering that retirees are disposablelike the poor and destitute.

He confirmed that will veto everythingbecause legislators are irresponsible and called them People who do sums with difficulty; they are ignorant and want to break this government because if we do well these rats will not come back..

Milei assured that this is 370 million dollars. spentafter having seized the Guarantee Fund at the National Administration of Social Services, which the pension system had to deal with difficult situations, which amounts to millions of dollars and no one knows where they are.

The veto will be complete, it will be totalsaid the far-right president and added that he does not know if he will be able to pay a bonus that increased in something pension payments, but far below what they need to survive.

Zero deficit at all costs

Your speech is discriminatory and fascistsome media outlets pointed out when the president said that he will maintain the fiscal deficit at zero –as requested by the International Monetary Fund– at the expense of retirees.

His partner, former President Mauricio Macri, of the right-wing Republican Proposal (PRO), yesterday after meeting with Milei decided to publicly support the veto, hours after having instructed the legislators of the Juntos por el Cambio alliance – headed by the PRO – to vote against Milei’s decree of necessity and urgency (DNU). This provoked a wave of debates in that alliance.You are either for or against change. It is wrong to send PRO senators to vote in favor of a fiscally irresponsible project and then go out and say that you are against it.wrote the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, on social media.

People’s rights cannot be vetoedsaid the former head of government of this capital, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, also from the PRO, who is in conflict with Macri and Bullrich; he added that It is undeniable that Argentina needs to have a zero fiscal deficit, but not at the expense of retireesThe law was passed with the vote of more than two-thirds of the senators, which reflects the political cost for Milei, when support for his government is declining.

If they want to raise pensions, they should make clear how they want to finance itthe president said, threatening new taxes or debt.

Degenerate prosecutors

He called the legislators degenerate prosecutorsto which some senators responded: He is a social degenerate that raised poverty to 50 percent and indigence to 25 percent.

It was the second blow for Milei, after Congress rejected the DNU, which planned to send 100 billion pesos for reserved expenses to the new State Intelligence Secretariat, which replaces the Federal Intelligence Agency. The serious thing is that he has already sent 80 billion to that agency and no one knows if they will be returned.

On the other hand, Minister Bullrich warned that voting against the DNU makes the fight against drug trafficking and terrorism impossible, and warned of a possible attackin response to the fact that Milei’s government placed on the list of terrorists to the Palestinian resistance organization Hamas.

The danger this represents is evident, not only with regard to Hamas, but also with regard to the possibility of instigating a false flag attack, to prevent further decline in support for Milei, who makes agreements with Israel, ignores the Palestinian genocide and promised to move the Argentine embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

On the other hand, analysts denounce that the government repealed the decrees on “the regulations that established the obligation of the State to contract the services of Banco Nación, Nación Seguros, Aerolíneas Argentinas –on the Optar platform– and YPF. It is a blow to these companies, about which Javier Milei does not hide his intentions to privatize. To justify the decision, the Executive used the case in which former President Alberto Fernández is being investigated for the insurance scandal as a pretext. This logic of putting the market before the State ended at other times with strong social vulnerability.holds a note of Page/12.