Human rights activists promote impeachment against Miley – DW – 04/23/2024

Activists fighting for human rights in Argentina on Monday (04/22/2024) presented a petition to Congress to impeach President Javier Meili “for poor performance of his duties and possible commission of crimes.”

In the 25-page document, artist and human rights leader Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1980; Others, including Alicia Castro, Argentina’s former ambassador to Venezuela and the United Kingdom, and Taty Almeida, a member of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, urged Chamber of Deputies President Martin Menem to initiate impeachment proceedings against the ultraliberal.

The promoters of the initiative, which must pass through several filters before it can be approved to hold a political test, cite “economic genocide” as a reason, pointing to the harshness of the economic adjustments made by the Miley Executive.

In addition to the questioned Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU), activists bring charges against the Law of Bases and Starting Points for Argentina’s Independence – known as the ‘Omnibus Law’, the star project of the Miley government that rejected Was given to the lower house of representatives, where the president’s party is in a very minority.

They refer to it as “a mega-law with ostentatiously named and constitutional memories” and harshly criticize that it provided for the ratification of the 20 December decree.

Furthermore, the signatories highlight that Miley may have committed the crime of “incitement to commit illegal acts”, as in her recent speech in favor of tax evaders in Argentina, given in front of a business forum. I went.

In addition, he accused the President of apologizing for “crime” and reducing funding for education or the fight against poverty with the dissemination of a revisionist video on the last day of remembrance for Truth and Justice.

GS (EFE, EldiarioAR, Pagina12)