Milei Bases Law: images of the strong protests against the reforms included in the Argentine president’s law

The debate in the Argentine Senate of the package of star reforms proposed by President Javier Milei included in the Bases Law was accompanied by strong protests and violent incidents in the streets of Buenos Aires.

The senators debated and approved this Wednesday by one vote the economic reforms proposed by Milei, which would reduce the weight of the State and favor private investment, while in the streets police and protesters clashed and moments of violence occurred.

Milei assures that to relaunch the economy the burden posed by the state sector must be reduced, but his rivals, parties, unions and left-wing organizations They believe that the president seeks to dismantle public services.

The legislative package, which won with the vote of Vice President Victoria Villarruel, must return to the Chamber of Deputies – which approved it in April – for approval, since the senators introduced some changes, but it is assumed that Congress will approve it. will become law.

The package includes spending adjustment measures and opens the door to the privatization of public companiessomething that the left-wing sectors opposed to Milei frontally reject.

The Clashes around the legislative palace They left several detainees and thirty people injured, according to the newspaper Clarín, which also raised the number of detainees to thirty.

The government harshly condemned the protesters and the President’s Office issued a statement congratulating the security forces for their response to what it called “Coup attempt”.

In the incidents, protesters dissatisfied with the government threw bottles and other blunt objects at police officers, who responded with tear gas and pressurized water to try to disperse them.

The debate ended early in the morning.

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