Groups of piqueteros stayed all night on 9 de Julio Avenue and threaten to stay indefinitely

The decision of the Minister of Social Development, Victoria Toulouse Peacethe unenrollment of 100,000 people from the Empower Work program due to lack of beneficiary validation prompted picketers, who demonstrated in front of the historic building bearing the image of Evita, to set up hundreds of tents on Avenida on 9 July and to sleep in the square. Eduardo Bellibonileader of the Polo Obrero, announced that he would continue the measure to “indefinite time”. The decision will be taken at the meeting to be held today at noon.

“The piquetero camp was set up on July 9 and throughout the country, for an indefinite period. Thousands of tents surround the Ministry of Social Development request an urgent meeting with Minister Tolosa Paz. We claim the hundred thousand victims of the Potenciar program and the food from the soup kitchens that did not arrive in the month of February,” an intransigent Belliboni told GlobeLiveMedia and insisted that they will not leave the central artery of Buenos Aires until the head of the national cabinet backs down from the victims of the social program.

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From the social portfolio, they assure that the former deputy will not receive the leaders of the left “as long as they continue the challenge”. In previous statements, Tolosa Paz encouraged them to use the organization they have to accompany Potenciar Trabajo holders who are registered in the management units and cooperatives of the Piquetera unit so that they biometrically validate their identity . in the 56 premises that the ministry has authorized across the country to carry out this procedure.

“We apologize to the public for the obstacles (in transit), but we are firm in the decision to don’t give higher in Empowering Work and dismiss those who do not validate their membership in the program,” the minister said.

Regarding the 100,000 suspensions for the holders of the program, the Minister stressed that: “It is not a lack of sensitivity, it is taking care in a very responsible way of all the Argentines who pay their taxes so that later we let’s redistribute them to the most vulnerable sectors and that they really need the support of the State”.

Regarding the decision taken by the leaders of the Piquetero unit, Tolosa Paz said that “what Belliboni is doing does not make sense because we are not going to change the direction we want to give to public policies. We want to order the accounts and we want to be sure that all this money will start having a function, which is to deliver machines and tools after the training to each of the people who have had their identity validated and who have had no impediment to do so. Only the picket unit make this statement because he is looking for a political slice but is not looking for the solution”, condemned the minister.

At the time, Belliboni denounced that the “savings” in Potenciar Trabajo’s budget due to losses, about 50 billion pesos per year, will be found in cooperatives and management units of governmental organizations, such as the Evita movement, which concentrates the greatest number of productive enterprises. One of Evita’s leaders is Emilio Pérsico, also a Tolosa Paz portfolio official. The head is in charge of the social economy secretariat. This body is responsible for administering the Potenciar Trabajo in question and accepting or rejecting 55,625 claims beneficiaries who have already made the request on the wallet website because they understand that they have been separated from Potenciar Trabajo in an irregular manner. “Pérsico exchanges his comrades for string, that’s why he does not claim losses,” accused the head of Polo Obrero.

From the Piquetera Unit camp, Nahuel Orellanaa referent of the MST-Teresa Vive explained to GlobeLiveMedia that the measure to camp indefinitely on July 9 was taken “five hours after the start of the national day of struggle”.

-And for what reason did they spend the night of July 9 and will they continue, at least, during today?, asked this medium to Orellana.

-The assembly decided to reaffirm the piquetero camp throughout the country. Given the lack of response during that day, when we were waiting for a portfolio manager from Tolosa Paz to call the Piquetera unit and be able to find a solution to the problems, no one called us. Quite the contrary: Tolosa Paz went out all day yesterday to criticize this action of struggle saying that we want a “piquetero ministry”, that we want to continue without work, and that he will cancel a hundred thousand plans without liquidation. We want a ministry that responds to social issues and does not continue to be an agency of the IMF as it is today, where they implement an adjustment at the request of the International Monetary Fund and remove those who have less in the country.

“We have closed the register and there will be one hundred thousand victims of Potenciar Trabajo and all this information goes to justice, to the legal case opened in the court of Ariel Lijo“, announced yesterday the Minister of Social Development. He did so in the moments before the picketers arrived near the building where his office works.

The file to which the official referred has already emilio persian at the center of an investigation for not having unsubscribed more than two hundred thousand holders of Potenciar Trabajo who, according to a report compiled by AFIP, were paid despite certain incompatibilities (owning several properties, being retired or having cars top of the line). .

“This is not the ministry of the piqueterosIt is precisely the responsibility of the Ministry of Social Development to create public policy and social policy for Argentina’s most vulnerable sectors,” said Tolosa Paz. The phrase encouraged left-wing leaders who had already decided to camp on July 9 and stay overnight, as they did.

As she has done on other occasions, the former La Plata councilor harshly criticized the intransigence of the leaders of left-wing organizations: “It really makes me very sad to see that in Argentina there was a sector of the Piquetera Unit, which played politics and positioned itself in an election year, it uses the poorest, even against its own interests. Picketing and extortion are not covered by Empowering Work. Nor is it about taking boys and girls camping on July 9 or four-year-olds and babies with their mothers,” the minister said.

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