BUENOS AIRES, June 13 — Argentine President Javier Milei’s controversial economic reform package narrowly won preliminary Senate approval late yesterday, after police and...
Argentine President Javier Milei ’s controversial economic reform package narrowly won preliminary Senate approval late yesterday, after police and protesters violently clashed outside Congress throughout the day. — AFP picBUENOS AIRES, June 13 — Argentine President Javier Milei ’s controversial economic reform package narrowly won preliminary Senate approval late yesterday, after police and protesters violently clashed outside Congress throughout the day.
Later, as night fell, thick blocks of shield-bearing officers and others on motorbikes pushed back the protesters, who overturned two cars — one of which belonged to a local media organisation — and set them on fire. Inside Congress, senators were debating what remains of Milei’s flagship reform bill — rejected in its original form and approved with major changes by the lower house Chamber of Deputies in April.The measures include declaring a one-year state of economic emergency, allowing Milei to disband federal agencies, and privatising about a dozen public companies including state-owned carrier Aerolineas Argentina.
The labour reforms, in particular, “take us back to the last century when the employee had no labour rights,” said opposition senator Mariano Recalde.
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