This Friday night, Javier Milei signed a total veto to the modest increase in pensions that Congress had voted for of the Nation. In what appears to be a political decision to try to show authority, the president is trying to prevent the minimum pension from increasing by only around $17,000. That is, a really minimal amount.
Vetoing a law that grants a modest 17 thousand pesos increase to retirees who receive poverty-level benefits is a mockery of those who have worked all their lives. Milei’s veto and the entire chainsaw plan he is applying against the working people must be defeated.
— Nicolas del Caño (@NicolasdelCano) August 31, 2024
In addition to a very harsh adjustment against retirees, the The decision implies a confrontation with different blocks of the National CongressBoth those who are openly opposed and those who collaborated in the approval of the Bases Law.
The veto comes in the same week that The national government repressed a mobilization of retirees in front of the National Congress. This Friday a conference of various organizations of senior citizens took place. There they announced that they will mobilize again next Wednesday and demanded that the CGT and the union organizations accompany them and call for a national strike against this adjustment.
It is not clear that the government will achieve its objective. Congress can insist on the law, rejecting the presidential veto by reaffirming the law with the vote of 2/3 of the legislators present in both chambers. If we look at the numbers of the parliamentary groups, this possibility appears more likely in the Senate and more difficult in the House of Representatives.
However, the Government He is betting on buying votes to guarantee a vote in his favor. This could include, for example, absences that facilitate the vote of support for the presidential decision. Once again, Milei will end up negotiating with the political caste that she so verbally criticizes. This is what allowed her to guarantee the Ley Bases, where she had the support of radicals, macristas, a sector of Peronism and the block headed by Miguel Ángel Pichetto.
As the Government moves forward with this adjustment policy, The CGT and the trade union and social organizations related to Peronism let the adjustment passFollowing the repression suffered by retirees on Wednesday, the union led by Héctor Daer, Carlos Acuña and Pablo Moyano only limited itself to a lukewarm press release.
It is necessary force them to break the truce with the Government and call for a national strike and a plan of struggle against the entire adjustment. Retirees cannot be the adjustment variable.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
