Despite the rain and after Thursday’s incidents in the provincial Legislature, the police protest in Misiones It entered its eighth day, remains firm and more and more people join the camp in front of the base of operations of the Radioelectric Command of the city of Posadas. In this context, the provincial government called the Police to a new meeting this Friday at noon, and the representatives of the force would give in to their demand for a 100% increase to reach an agreement.
Meanwhile, the protest is becoming nationalized. In the Federal Capital, This afternoon the CTA made a claim in front of the Casa de Misiones and there were some minor incidents with police officers who prevented entry to the property on 800 Santa Fe Avenue.
The meeting is taking place at the Police Headquarters in Posadas. There was the so-called police table, which brings together the representatives of the different regional units of the Misiones Police.
Ramón Amarilla, one of the police spokespersons, said that he received a call and that the authorities “are waiting for a counterproposal.” “There is will on both sides,” he said. Thus, it is understood that the troops would give up their desire to double their salaries.
The salary of an agent is around $400,000. The Government started the negotiation with an offer of a 15% increase and a few days later raised it to 20%, warning the police that they would not make another improvement. This Thursday morning, new bridges were built and the percentage was raised to 30% in a budgetary “maximum effort,” officials told the police board. Did not reach.
“We went to the meeting and they already took the minutes for us to sign the 30% increase and the amnesty for all active personnel. We told them that we should put it to the consideration of the personnel who are protesting and the assembly told us that the offer was insufficient,” a member of the police board had said on Thursday, before the incidents.
This Friday The police camp entered its eighth day. Before the call for the new meeting, the Minister of Government, Marcelo Pérez, had insisted that he would discharge all active personnel who joined the protest. But an agreement would imply amnesty for those who participated in the claim.
The pro-government deputies also generated discomfort in the police troops by approving this Thursday night a project that declares the “strong repudiation of violent and intimidating actions of a small group of active and passive members of the Misiones Police in the early hours of Friday the 17th of this month, in front of the Radioelectric Command I building in the city of Posadas. These acts gave rise to the alteration of public order and the characteristic tranquility of our community, thus constituting an act of sedition”. The project was promoted by Carlos Rovira, the leader of the ruling Frente Renovador de la Concordia.
This Thursday evening, thousands of teachers and public health employees marched to the Legislature, which hours before had been surrounded with fences that were welded and bolted to the ground. It was not enough to stop the protesters, who They clashed with police from the Rapid Intervention Group who were stationed in the hall of the legislative palace. Using pepper spray they forced back the crowd that chanted against Rovira and Governor Hugo Passalacqua. Inside, heavily equipped, gendarmes and federal police waited to take action.
Later the column headed to the governor’s private house, in the heart of the city center, where again the Police acted with pepper spray and there was even a shotgun shot with stun cartridges. The situation calmed down when the Infantry personnel retreated a few meters. The protest ended with some posters posted on the garage door.
In Misiones the conflict first began with the claim of the teachers, who have been demanding salary improvements for more than a month. Until now, an undergraduate teacher who is just starting out in a teaching career earns $250,000. One of the unions, the Union of Teachers of the Province of Misiones, accepted the proposal to raise it to $400,000, but that agreement was not accepted by the bases. The same happened with the public health sector. And in third place was the security, who, upon not receiving a response to their complaints, began the camp eight days ago.
In the middle, the province asked the Ministry of National Security to create a Crisis Committee, which is provided for in the Internal Security Law. On Sunday there was an attempt to isolate the protesters with federal forces and it all ended in incidents.
