In the midst of increasing tension due to the wave of terminations of public employee contracts ordered by the national government, the general secretary of the Association of State Workers (ATE),
Rodolfo Aguiar
, pointed out against the Executive and warned that
Javier Milei and Its officials could "end up in prison
. "
"During
the weekend we counted more than 11,000 layoffs
. The President has decided to break the Argentine legal system in its core and both he and his officials could end up in prison," said Aguiar in a harsh message that he published on the social network. x.
The unionist accused the Government of "
causing massive layoffs
in the State" and maintained that "suppressing fundamental rights of people is conduct classified in our Penal Code."
"Violating the guarantee of stability provided for in article 14 bis of the National Constitution tens of thousands of times in turn causes the suppression of other fundamental rights that the entire society has. And our Penal Code in its article 226 gives
penalties of between 5 and 15 years
for those who prevent the free exercise of constitutional powers," he said.
In addition, Aguiar ratified the "massive and simultaneous income" of State workers in the different organizations within the framework of his "fight plan" against the Government.
Over the weekend we counted more than 11,000 layoffs.
The President has decided to break the Argentine legal system at its core and both he and his officials could end up in prison.
Causing massive layoffs in the State is suppressing rights… pic.twitter.com/p7BCz6VIIs
— Rodolfo Aguiar (@rodoaguiar) April 2, 2024
"Tomorrow at 4 p.m. we convene a Federal Plenary with more than 1,000 delegates to deepen the plan of struggle. We have to demonstrate that it is the Government that acts outside the Constitution and the law. In the morning, the workers with our massive and simultaneous incomes we will be exercising our rights to strike, demonstrate and gather. If there is violence and repression, the only person responsible will be the Casa Rosada," concluded the head of ATE.
The unionist explained to Clarín that "the first admissions will be at 7 in the morning" and repeated the same warning as in networks: "If there is violence it will be ordered from the Casa Rosada. We all have the right to enter public offices as workers or citizens".
In recent days, the Government ratified its cutback plan as a strategy to reduce State spending and began to accelerate layoffs during the long holiday. It aims to reach 15,000 casualties in the coming days, as its spokesman Manuel Adorni had announced.
That number is the one that the spokesperson announced in a press conference after Milei indicated during a participation in an economic forum that he would cancel 70,000 state contracts.
News in development.