President Milei threatens to impose two judges on the Supreme Court and to remove the country from Mercosur

▲ Retirees, from whom the government has taken away benefits, maintain their protests against Javier Milei in front of the National Congress in Buenos Aires.Photo Afp

Stella Calloni

Correspondent

La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, November 29, 2024, p. 23

Buenos Aires., The government of the far-right Javier Milei threatened to appoint by decree the two new judges of the Supreme Court of Justice, whose names it sent to Congress, which collides with the Senate and generates strong debates, while the general situation in Argentina It gets worse like never before.

Furthermore, days before the meeting of the presidents of the Southern Common Market, in Uruguay, on December 6, when Argentina must assume the presidency pro temporeMilei suggested that he could break with this alliance to sign a Free Trade Agreement with the elected president of the United States, Donald Trump.

With the current government approaching one year, on December 10, Milei will face its most difficult period, since it opened too many controversial fronts in all areas, and yesterday’s tumultuous debate in the Chamber of Deputies, in which there was crying, shouts, insults and accusations, showed that, as union leaders, economists and analysts warn, a situation similar, or more serious, to that produced by the popular rebellion of the December 19-20, 2001, which led to the resignation of then-president Fernando de la Rúa.

It is difficult to understand the Argentine political labyrinth since yesterday the Libertad Avanza government failed to quorum to vote the call Clean record lawpresented by the Radical Civic Union and the right-wing Republican Proposal (PRO), led by its partner, former president Mauricio Macri, without whom Milei would never have won in the second round when he faced the Unión por la Patria (Peronist) in November of 2023.

Macri promoted this legislation to prevent politicians from competing electorally who had cases of corruption and embezzlement of funds, among others, so the recipients of clean sheet They are the former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner or some of her former officials, to whom with the complicity of justice they invented false causes, among them the so-called of roadfor which the Court of Cassation has requested the arrest of Fernández (six years in prison) and she is banned for life from holding public office.

This chamber is made up of judges belonging to the so-called judicial partyarising from a plan between Macri and the United States embassy, ​​which used the lawfarejudicializing politics with the complicity of the mass media, the intelligence services and the right to denigrate, kill morally to the leaders and officials who are not submissive to the hegemonic powers, as seen throughout the region.

On the other hand, large mobilizations are being prepared for the coming days. The two Argentine workers’ confederations are organizing a mobilization for December 5 under the slogan “The Homeland is not for sale,” to protest against the economic adjustment that continues on the salaried class.

In a report by the Association of State Workers on the evolution of the minimum, vital and mobile wage, it was shown that there is a brutal loss of purchasing power since December 2023, “as a result of the effect of the devaluation and its impact on prices (…) the historical decline is so great that the real value of the minimum wage is already lower than that in force during most of the 1990s.” Full note in https://bit.ly/3B5OpuX.