Milei has its black day at the Argentine Congress

The ultra -rightist Javier Milei had one of his worst political days in the Argentine Congress. Inside doors, the opposition managed to advance in the creation of a investigative commission that elucidates responsibilities in the so -called “cryptogate”, the scam with a digital asset that has the president in the center of the scene. Outside the legislature They faced police and police officers during the weekly protest of pensioners who demand an improvement in state benefits. The infantry and the motorized police fired bullets of gums and tear gas, while the hydrant trucks moved through the surrounding streets, two kilometers from the headquarters of the Executive, with a ferocity that, the adversaries of Milei pointed out, referred to the times of the military regimes. The protesters threw objects and burned garbage containers. Dozens of people were arrested.

“Pepper gas, sticks and hydrant truck, Milei’s policy for retirees, “said the Peronist deputy, Julia Strada. The Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, subtracted political legitimacy from the protest. He said that she was not pensioners but of violent young people and” brave bar “of football. “Our forces are deployed to enforce the protocol“. The fans of the Central Rosario clubs and Chacarita challenged the prohibition of occupying the streets.” Police, police, we don’t tell you anymore. If they touch the old ones, what quilombo (mess) will be assembled. “The leftist matches assured that the excesses were starring” infiltrated “of the security forces.”There are political movements aimed at destabilizing the government “Said Interior Minister Guillermo Francos.

Beatriz Bianco joined the demonstration despite his 87 years. He received a baston in the head and had to be urgently transferred to a hospital. The situation faced by pensioners is a waters divide in Argentina. For the centrist senator Martín Lousteau, the grandparents and grandmothers suffer “the most cruel adjustment” that Milei carries out. Of every 100 pesos cut by the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, almost 20 pesos came from retirement and pensions.

The incidents took place in the midst of the most difficult days of Milei, whose image has slipped through a slope for a combination of factors, including the “cryptogate” and the indifference with which it reacted after the climate disaster in the Buenos Aires city of Bahía Blanca. The problems to contain the price of the dollar are added to the horizon of official concerns. But the main restlessness woke up to failure to avoid the creation of an investigative commission for the $ LIBRA case. The ultra -right did not have the votes to stop the initiative that brought together parties united by fright: Kirchnerism, the center and the center -right.

The possible intervention of Congress in the scandal opens a storm front at times that suspicions grow on the role of Karina Milei, the president’s sister, in the plot that allowed the promoters of $ Libra to stay with about 100 million dollars. The parliamentary session issued by the first green light concluded with a confrontation to the blows between two official deputies.

Next Tuesday and Wednesday the affairs and requests commissions were located to rule on the relevance of this commission. Its commissioning can force Karina Milei, known as “the boss”, for his strong prominence in the government, to appear before the deputies. The current general secretary of the Presidency usually does not speak in public. It exercises power far from the cameras and microphones.

For the first time in months, the government has lost the initiative. Milei traveled to Bahía Blanca to observe the calamitous situation. He could not avoid some inserts. The relative control of inflation does not seem to stop to stop discontent. In this context, the opposition also seeks to bring the extraordinary powers to Milei to make decisions without going through the legislative power.