The president prepares to face his speech at the Legislative Assembly this Saturday, March 1. It will be the second time that it touches her to lead her, but this time she occurs at the worst moment of her government: marked by the scandal of the Crypto scam of $ Libra, with many questions to her economic plan and after having appointed by decree the judges Lijo and García Mansilla for the Supreme Court of Justice.
Thus Milei tries to impose his story, making clear in the same movement the authoritarianism that he exercises from the Executive and the weakness of not being able to present himself in public if he does not have everything digitized. The latter had already made it clear in the “interview” arranged that he maintained with Jonatan Viale, when millions could see how his star advisor interrupted a question to blow the libretto in his ear and change an answer that could compromise him judicially.
This Saturday, in an unprecedented decision, journalists who usually work in the Nation Congress will not be able to enter the traditional press boxes during the speech. These places were destined for guests of the ruling party, with the intention of forming a kind of libertarian gallery and restricting the task of journalists, which will be “relocated” in small places on a second floor, which do not have sufficient capacity for the task of the more than 30 accredited and accredited. In the same vein they also pointed against graphic reporters, who cannot directly enter the enclosure and There will only be official photographers.
The circle of parliamentary journalists (CPP) had already expressed that “deplores and rejects” the “unknaked” decision, ensuring that “journalists are discriminated in this absolutely irrational way and without any practical sense.” In a statement, they also recalled that journalists have historically occupied these spaces without incident, and regretted that Congress, as an independent power, “claudique before orders of the Executive Power.”
However, this attack on press freedom is not an isolated event but is part of a series of restrictive actions by the Government of Milei, who had already limited the access of the press in important events such as the speech of March 1 of last year and the presentation of the budget 2025. A modus operandi of a weak government, which needs to shield its story as of place.
A political show in the prime time to try to divert the crisis
These authoritarian maneuvers occur in a very critical context for the Milei government, injured in its credibility after the scam of the $ LIBRA cryptocurrency, which could not have been completed without the direct intervention of the president himself. In addition, the recent appointment by decree of Judges Lijo and García Mansilla in the Supreme Court has been widely questioned even by its allies, as an important sector of the PRO that responds to Mauricio Macri and the United States Chamber of Commerce in Argentina (Amcham), who warned that “institutional unpredictability and the lack of clear rules erosion country”.
In addition, the government’s economic plan faces questions everywhere. The brutal adjustment not only impacts negatively among millions of workers, with a consumption in free fall and with the loss of more than 200,000 jobs, but also begins to be looked side by by large sectors of the bourgeoisie that accumulate criticism against the exchange rate and exchange restrictions.
In this context, the press restrictions can be interpreted more than as a deliberate strategy of a government that seeks to silence criticism and maintain control of the narrative in its worst political moment. Far from being a “transparent” and protocol act, this Saturday night’s speech is emerging as a political spectacle designed to divert attention to the multiple crises facing the government. With carefully placed cameras to show a controlled image and without journalists who can tell and question what happens, Milei seeks to resume control of the media agenda. The show of a completely disconnected caste from the reality that the vast majority of the population lives.
A semi -valed chamber and the position of the left
UXP deputies and senators also warned that they will not attend and Lousteau’s radicals either, while at the time only three governors confirmed their presence. An opportunity to show an opposition that nevertheless is not consistent with the help they have been given at the time of voting, as seen in recent weeks with the suspension of the passage or with the unanimous vote to the sanction of the repressive laws of Patricia Bullrich, who accompanied the same Peronists and the UCR.
From the Left Front, Nicolás del Caño and other referents have repudiated these measures, qualifying them as “inadmissible authoritarianism”, demanding the cessation of press restrictions and the restoration of the full access of journalists to Congress. But they also advanced their position of not participating this Saturday. “Our block is not going to attend the Legislative Assembly. It is a show to cover the scam of Milei and its authoritarian government,” said the leader of the left through a statement and pointed out: “We have requested the interpellation of Javier Milei in Congress and that the crypto scam is thoroughly investigated, which is nothing more than a metaphor of the political scam of a government that said that he came to adjust to the caste It was adjusted to the working majorities with the political leadership ‘traditional’.
Our block will not attend the Legislative Assembly.
It is a show to cover Milei’s scam and his authoritarian government
This legislative assembly has a number of unpublished restrictions tailored to the authoritarian government of Milei, for example not letting …– Nicolas del Caño (@nicolasdelcano) February 27, 2025
With an increasingly isolated and questioned government for more and more sectors of society, the assembly prepared by the government has the problem of being a short wick. The devaluation of the presidential word and the path of wear that began to retrace quickly are the perfect conditions to multiply the efforts to twist his arm and increase resistance in the streets, which is the only way to fight to end the adjustment of a government that has nothing to offer more than a decadent show.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
