Two deputies from the party of the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, and a secretary from the Argentine president’s administration were prevented from giving a lecture and attacked with stones at a university in the province of Buenos Aires this Friday afternoon (4).
According to information from the newspaper Clarín, the attack took place at the National University of La Plata, where the event organized by the student group Universitarios en La Libertad Avanza (LLA, Milei’s motto and name of the president’s party) would take place.
The lecture would be attended by Alejandro Álvarez, Undersecretary of University Policies of the Argentine government, the leader of the LLA in the Chamber of Deputies of the Province of Buenos Aires and presidential advisor, Agustín Romo, and the national deputy Santiago Santurio, also from the LLA.
Libertarians reported that left-wing students held a protest against the group linked to Milei, which ended in violence.
“Really very funny. We couldn’t enter the lecture at the National University of La Plata because they put chains on the door. They threw a stone at deputy Santiago Santurio’s head,” Romo posted on social media.
Images released by the libertarians show Santurio taking a stone to the head and bleeding.
Romo is a friend of federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP), who in April published a selfie with him when they both participated in the Hungarian edition of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), held in Budapest. At the time, the Brazilian parliamentarian called the Argentinean “fighter for freedom of expression”.
According to Clarín, left-wing students claimed that Milei and the LLA “want to close” the university.
On Thursday (3), the day after a large demonstration by students, teachers and leftist movements in Buenos Aires and other Argentine cities, the president vetoed a law approved in Congress in September to change the financing of public universities, claiming that it compromises his administration’s goal of zero deficit and had only political objectives.
Opposition deputies want an extraordinary session in the Chamber next Wednesday (9) to vote on overturning the veto.
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