A litmus test for anti-strike protocols: This is how the government prepares for the CGT march

“We hope this will be a day when freedom triumphs: anyone who wants to go to work can go, and anyone who wants to stay can do so, without complicating the lives of the rest of us, “Others are associated with something that the majority of Argentines do not agree with,” the president’s spokesman said in the morning, without undermining any authority and without pretension. manuel adorni,

With that brief comment, the government tried to downplay the importance of the strike and mobilization that the CGT and social and leftist movements are going to carry out this Wednesday in rejection of the economic policies. xavier mileyWhich is just over a month old.

Another aspect that stands out from Adorni’s comment is that the national authorities are going to re-enact anti-picketing protocol To try to block roads and prevent riots during the Congress march.

So far as he could know infobaeA group of labor union representatives met with officials from the Ministry of National Security and the City of Buenos Aires to agree on how the program would be carried out.

After that meeting, the CGT issued a statement in which it assured that both parties agreed on the steps to be taken to mobilize and “guarantee the peaceful development of the activities of the inhabitants of the affected areas”.

However, the sources of the portfolio that lead Patricia Bullrich he made it clear “The Union Group neither has the capacity nor is it authorized to ensure, authorize or restrict the dissemination of any“Only government authorities have the power to exercise such control.”

As anticipated, as was the case in previous cases in which the protocol was applied, this would occur during the day Strict control on all buses affected by MarchAnd also in railway stations and the actual concentration of protesters.

Similarly, union members were stressed that they were “absolutely prohibited from cutting any artery or circulatory passage” and, to this end, provisions were made. Organizing four armies dependent on BullrichFederal Police, Gendarmerie, Prefecture and Airport Security Police.

Members of each of these security agencies will coordinate actions with agents of the City Police to oversee the development of the plan, which Considers that the protesters enter the square in front of Congress from Avenida 9 de Julio via Avenida de Mayo and “guarantee the free movement of traffic”.,

Although the federal judge of La Plata Ernesto Kreplak He told the Ministry of National Security that no filming or searches should take place without a prior court order. Official sources confirmed that buses will be inspected, but only those buses going to protests will be inspected.

Furthermore, people taking part in the program will not be able to “cover their faces in an intimidating manner”, nor have “sticks or blunt elements” and they “must not accompany children, as this violates their rights” at home. Be it in school, playing or studying.”

For their part, the CGT leaders will set up a platform on the square, whose measures must also include respecting the free movement of vehicles through Entre Ríos, from where they will speak. The initial aim of the march was to coincide with the treatment of the so-called omnibus law promoted by Miley, although it is expected that, after long days of discussion in the commissions, the project will be debated next Thursday or Friday.

Although it was originally called only by the labor union, the protest later included all the social movements that make up the Union of Popular Economy Workers (UTEP), making the number of protesters possibly greater than ever before.

In fact, only the Evita Movement, Somos Barrios de Pie, MTE, the Classist and Combative Current (CCC), the Dario Santillan Popular Front, and the Francisco Missionaries Movement, are estimated to have mobilized approximately fifty thousand militants.

Meanwhile, Polo Obrero and the Piquetera Unit announced that they would independently gather at the intersection of Rivadavia and Paraná streets at 11:00 pm to march towards Congress at 1:30 pm.

With this scenario, this could be the first large-scale mobilization that Miley will face and in which anti-picketing protocols, which have so far been implemented only in smaller protests, will be implemented.

Although till now The government has no estimate of how much money it will stop collecting As a result of the general strike in the state, Adorni described the measure as “nonsense” and accused its organizers of being “on the wrong side of history”.

Officials, on their part, said, “We will work with all constitutional instruments to ensure that no one violates or violates the existing rules, will preventively promote compliance with the said rules, document actions, report them and /Or will shut them down properly.” Buenos Aires