The Minister of Security,
Patricia Bullrich
, described as
"very weak"
the general strike this Wednesday called by the CGT to demonstrate against the Government of Javier Milei, more precisely in rejection of the DNU and the Omnibus Law.
In an interview with
TN
, the official took stock of the measure of force led by the workers' union: "I saw it as very weak.
Forty thousand people is a low number
. There were people in the square, who were not even occupied, and just one block back."
Then, the camera focused on the general secretary of the CGT,
Héctor Daer
, who was in the studio and who, through his cell phone, showed an image of the demonstration in the Plaza del Congreso, trying to contradict the poor attendance proposed by the minister. .
For his part, Bullrich insisted and provided figures: "It was
only 0.19 percent of the workers
in this country. The majority of people decided to work today. Only 4 percent of the businesses in the Federal Capital closed."
"I was visiting commercial areas and factory areas. In all those places, people came up to me and told me that they were tired of having the country stop, of losing days and also money," he added.
Patricia Bullrich, Minister of Security, and Héctor Daer, general secretary of the CGT.
Meanwhile, he said that there were "
many complaints of pressures
."
"Just to prosecute the strike we have around 3,000," she said.
In that sense, he pointed out that "
there was extortion and pressure
to prevent people from going to work in the factories or to get them on buses and go on strike."
During the afternoon of this Wednesday, while the strike was taking place, the leader of the Security portfolio was very active on social networks.
There she shared videos touring different neighborhoods and talking to people.
"Here, from Flores. All stores open. The country is made by working," she wrote on her X account (former Twitter).
Of 21 million workers, only 0.19% mobilized, if we consider La Cámpora and social organizations among the workers.
40 thousand people.
Total failure.
The change in full gear.
pic.twitter.com/uzEYp4TTUn
— Patricia Bullrich (@PatoBullrich) January 24, 2024
Shortly after, he made a harsh assessment of the strike, which he defined as a "
total failure
."
"Of 21 million workers, only 0.19% mobilized, if we consider La Cámpora and social organizations among the workers. 40 thousand people," he wrote.
Earlier, before noon, he had published a harsh message addressed to the "mafioso unionists, poverty managers, complicit judges and corrupt politicians", whom he accused of being "defending their privileges and resisting the change that society decided democratically and which the President leads with determination".