By decree of President Javier Milei, the current “Presidente Dr. Néstor Carlos Kirchner” Cultural Center, named by law 26,794 of 2012, which superimposed the name of the deceased former president to the “Bicentennial Cultural Center”, In the next few hours it will be called Centro Cultural Palacio Libertad Domingo F. Sarmiento. We are talking about the monumental historical jewel that the Central Post Office once was.
This is what they stated two unobjectionable sources to Clarín Cultura. Neither of them is the presidential spokesperson, who could not be reached Wednesday night.
This Thursday, the Secretary of Culture of the Nation, Leonardo Cifelli, is scheduled to appear before the Culture Commission at 9 to respond to a series of requests for reports from the Chamber of Deputies.
Until the publication of this note, it was impossible to contact both Secretary Cifelli and the Undersecretary of Press of the General Secretariat, Javier Lanari, to find out the reasons that justify the change of name of the institution and the details of the rule that, in a austere act, President Milei will present publicly in the hall of the former Central Post Office, still CCK, on Saturday at 7 p.m.
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The Spokesman announced that the name of the Kirchner Cultural Center will be changed.
The press will be in a corral on the esplanade. Only access will be allowed to the Presidency networks, as well as Public TV, which will broadcast the event.
Then the first president will attend the Choir performanceone of the stable bodies of the National Secretariat of Culture.
Several months ago, when presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni announced the change of name from CCK to Palacio Libertad, the measure was justified in that, since the former Central Post Office was a historic building, “the name of buildings and public spaces, historical monuments and related, “They cannot respond in any case to political and party interests.”. This was the need and urgency, according to the government, to modify by decree and not by law the name of the current CCK.
The cultural center was declared a national historical monument by decree 262/97given the relevance of the building that is part of the richest architectural heritage of our country, with enormous historical value.
The other justification for Milei’s decree would be, always according to unobjectionable sources who did not have access to the preparation of the norm, that the time required “the legislative process would entail a significant delay that would make it difficult to act in a timely manner”for which the “constitutional remedy” provided for in paragraph 3 of article 99 of the National Constitution was chosen, within the framework of the use of the powers regulated in Law No. 26,122.
This rule regulates the procedure and scope of Congressional intervention regarding presidential DNUs. The same law determines that the Permanent Bicameral Commission has the authority to rule on the validity or invalidity of the DNU, as well as to submit the opinion to the plenary session of each Chamber for its express treatment, within a period of ten business days.
So in the next few hours we will be able to call the Cultural Center “Palacio Libertad Domingo F. Sarmiento”, one of the impeccable heroes from the 19th century that no one would dare to question in the 21st century.
Well, “nobody” is relative. During the projection on the façade of the Buenos Aires Town Hall, in the celebration of the Bicentennial when Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was president, The national government “ate” Sarmiento in the mapping.
Congress has the final say.