The debate in the Argentine Senate of the package of star reforms proposed by President Javier Milei included in the Bases Law was accompanied by strong protests and violent incidents in the streets of Buenos Aires.
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The senators debated the economic reforms that Milei wants to approve, which would reduce the weight of the State and favor private investment, while in the streets police and protesters clashed and moments of violence occurred.
Milei assures that to relaunch the economy the burden on the state sector must be reduced, but his rivals, parties, unions and left-wing organizations believe that the president seeks to dismantle public services.
The project presented by Milei has already undergone changes in Congress, where his party, La Libertad Avanza, does not have the majority, and its minority position also in the Senate leaves the result of the vote uncertain.
The package includes spending adjustment measures and opens the door to the privatization of public companies, something that Milei’s left-wing opposition sectors strongly reject.
The Clashes around the legislative palace They left several detainees and thirty people injured, according to the newspaper Clarín, which also raised the number of detainees to thirty.
The government harshly condemned the protesters and the President’s Office issued a statement congratulating the security forces for their response to what it called “Coup attempt”.
In the incidents, protesters dissatisfied with the government threw bottles and other blunt objects at police officers, who responded with tear gas and pressurized water to try to disperse them.
Meanwhile, the debate continues in what is expected to be a long day.
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