A group of about twenty
Argentine
protesters aligned with
Kirchnerism
tried without success to break the tranquility and atmosphere of joy that abounded in the official delegation this Sunday in the capital of Italy, after Javier Milei's first meeting with Pope Francis.
The call was made by the organization “
Argentines in Italy for Memory, Truth and Justice”
, very close to Kirchnerism, they stood in front of the
Hotel Intercontinental Ambasciatori Roma
, located on Via Veneto and meters from the United States embassy, to protest. against the President's policies.
The scheduled start time was 2:30 p.m. in Rome (10:30 a.m. in Buenos Aires), but the first Argentinians only began to be seen after 3:00 p.m. (11 a.m. in Argentina).
Barely
half an hour later and without the desired impact
, they withdrew.
The President didn't even find out
at the time.
With proclamations such as “the country is not for sale” and “Milei, garbage, you are the dictatorship,” the Argentines – among them exiles during the military era – began the protest at the door of the hotel, before being
chased to the sidewalk of front by the Italian police
.
It was hours after President Milei's visit to the Vatican to witness the canonization of Mama Antula, the first Argentine saint.
A Kirchnerist group complains to the hotel where Javier Milei is staying in Rome. Photo Víctor Sokolowicz
This same group had organized last December 10, within the framework of the 40 years of democracy, a demonstration in the famous Piazza del Popolo, in rejection of Milei and in defense of Human Rights.
And in the past he held
friendly meetings with Cristina Kirchner
.
The Kirchnerist complaint, in a letter to Pope Francis
Prior to Milei's trip, this group also wrote a
letter to Pope Francis
in which they warned him that the President “is putting at
serious risk
a large part of the social and democratic rights achieved by the Argentine people in the last eighty years.” of history".
"President Milei's government agenda - they added - also threatens to erase the important and exemplary achievements of thirty years of struggle for human rights, for Memory, Truth and Justice, in relation to the crimes committed by Terrorism of State during the last civil-military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983 that culminated in 30,000 disappearances.”
Half an hour of protest in Rome, a brief Kirchnerist call against Javier Milei. Photo Víctor Sokolowicz
The protesters consider that “the Milei government showed its aversion to any formal constitutional and democratic procedure, presenting a set of almost 900 laws to radically change the legal-institutional structure of the Argentine State through a National Emergency Decree (DNU) and an Omnibus Law.”
Finally, they conclude that “Argentina is experiencing a moment of democratic emergency.
An emergency wanted and decreed by the President himself, both at a formal and legal level, and at a discursive level, that is, through his
daily contempt and delegitimization
of all norms and institutions of the democratic life of a country: parties, parliament, unions. , social movements, demonstrations, strikes.”
Consequently, they ask Francisco to “
remain vigilant
so that the individual constitutional guarantees enshrined in the modern rule of law are respected by the Argentine President, who has placed the emergency and the exception at the center of his government program.”
D.S.