Massive protest against the Government and judicial reform took over the streets

Thousands of people demonstrated yesterday in the federal capital and in more than 50 cities in Argentina, including La Plata, see p. 6) against the Government of Alberto Fernández with various claims such as opposition to the judicial reform that the ruling party intends to carry out, mainly, and the end of isolation due to the pandemic.

The biggest demonstrations were in Córdoba, Mendoza, Santa Fe and Tucumán. The voices against the Executive – which described the Protestants as “minorities” – even reached the doors of the presidential residence in the Buenos Aires town of Olivos, where dozens of people gathered.

In the downtown area of ​​Buenos Aires, there were thousands who, between cars and on foot, gathered around the Obelisk and advanced to the Plaza de Mayo, in front of the Government headquarters.

The march was called by social networks on a public holiday in Argentina, commemorating the 170th anniversary of the death of General José de San Martín, liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru, which is why the President held an act hours before the demonstration in which he called for “unity” in times of pandemic.

Although the main opposition coalition did not call for the demonstration, some of its leaders did so in a personal capacity, such as the president of the Republican Proposal (PRO), Patricia Bullrich, who attended the march and recorded a video that she posted on her social networks .

the axis of the protests

Bullrich, who spoke with the mask from a car, charged against the other great issue that concentrated the protesters’ claims, the judicial reform that Fernández announced at the end of July.

“It is time for the Justice reform to be lifted, Justice cannot be carried out to the extent of impunity. Finally, understand, look that there is a people demanding that there be a country with a Constitution, with Justice, “he said, addressing the President in the video.

According to the Executive, the reform aims to give more independence and effectiveness to the Judiciary and the main opposition front, Juntos por el Cambio, rejects it because it considers that it seeks to promote impunity for the former president and current vice president, Cristina Kirchner, with causes of corruption. And that was reflected in the framework of the so-called “March 17A”.

At the protest, hundreds of motorists honked their car horns while holding signs that read “Enough of impunity”, “We are fed up with this dictatorship” and “This is reform; I make you president and you clean up my causes. ”

María Riccheri, 61, said that she went to the protest to demand freedom and that “Cristina Kirchner go to prison,” in addition to questioning the Government for lacking an economic plan to overcome the crisis and criticizing the reform plans judicial, for which the ruling party has a legal adviser who is a lawyer for the former president.

In the interior of the country, the mobilizations grouped, among others, agricultural producers who complained of political corruption, leaders who “treat the State as if it were their own” and who apply “absurd recipes” with which people she is “more defenseless and poorer.”