1 in 1 man is arrested during a wave of protests against the reform package announced by Argentine President Javier Milei in Buenos Aires on December 27, 2023. — Photo: Gustavo Garello/ AP Man is arrested during a wave of protests against the reform package announced by Argentine President Javier Milei on December 27, 2023 in Buenos Aires. — Photo: Gustavo Garello/AP
With 664 articles, the law of foundations and starting points for the freedom of Argentines, a text sent to Congress this Wednesday (27) by President Javier Milei, It became known as the Bus Act due to the wide range of reforms it covers in the country.
By declaring a public emergency in the areas of economics, finance, taxation, security and defense, the law establishes superpowers for Milei until December 2025, extendable for another two years and covering the entire Argentine presidential term.
In other words, the law guarantees Milei the right to intervene in countless aspects of Argentinians' daily lives, based on the idea that only the president embodies the will of the people, as columnist Martín Rodríguez Yebra noted in the newspaper La Nación . .
Combined: the Necessity and Urgency Ordinance and the Bus Act More than a thousand items in total who, as Milei explained, seek to “dismantle the disability machinery.” The problem is that the Freedom Advances Party only has 37 of its 257 members in the House of Commons and 7 of its 72 members in the Senate.
After turning his back on lawmakers in his inaugural address and calling them corrupt, Milei called them into extraordinary sessions to discuss the 351page text, which requires congressional approval.
To implement his shock and order program, the Argentine president relies on the popular approval of 55% of the voters who threw him into the Casa Rosada.
In fact, internal security is one of the most disturbing aspects of his bill, representing something of an obsession for Milei and for portfolio holder and former firstround opponent Patricia Bullrich, who belongs to the hard wing of former President Mauricio Macri's party.
The bus law is a model for the government's already strict antipicketing protocol and increases the punishment for those who organize social protests up to six years in prison if the demonstrations impede the public's freedom of movement. It also legitimizes the right to selfdefense on the part of the police authority.
Any gathering with more than three people in a public space is considered a demonstration It is must be informed 48 hours in advance to the Ministry of Security, which will have the final say.
The folder headed by Bullrich will contain a document that the march organizers must carry with them during the march, always with the principle that it must not disrupt or obstruct traffic. This is the bureaucratization of the right to protest in order to discourage it.
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