Left-wing organizations to introduce bill to freeze prices of basic food basket and services for a year

The social movement Libres del Sur will present a petition of 1,850,000 signatures to the National Congress today to discuss the bill, which is the result of a “popular initiative” which proposes Freeze the prices of Basic Basket products and electricity and gas tariffs for twelve months.

The petition is preceded by a national campaign through a tour of the country through the delivery of forms to sign and support the initiative that has involved the main neighborhoods and popular cities, such as Paraná, Córdoba, Trelew, the city of Buenos Areas and Posadas. , among other cities and neighborhoods in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, including La Matanza, Lomas de Zamora, La Plata, Quilmes, Lanús, Moreno, Merlo and Berazategui.

Silvia Saraviaexplained the national territorial coordinator of Libres del Sur GlobeLiveMedia that the collection of signatures has begun “with the aim of obtaining the freezing of foodstuffs and public services”. Concerning the mobilization of this afternoon at the Legislative Palace, he declared: “After having accomplished all the steps envisaged in the regulation of the popular initiative which was registered in the national Constitution in 1994, and which to date does not had never been completed to clarify, we are going to present and we are going to bring to Congress the nearly two million signatures so that the Chamber of Deputies discusses and listens to the people so that once and for all they discuss the things that interest Argentines .”

According to the social leader who is part of the Piquetero unit, national legislators should take into account: “Stop discussing secondary issues. Today, the priority for society is to freeze fares and food prices. This situation that we are going through deteriorates the incomes, not only of those who receive state aid, but also of all the workers of our country”.

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“We must obtain the freeze because the pockets of Argentines and modest families do not give for more,” he said to this media. jesus escobarthe presidential candidate of Libres del Sur.

Law No. 24,747, which regulates Article 39 of the National Constitution, requires the signature of at least 550,000 people so that a popular initiative can be sent to Congress to discuss the bill. Social leaders filled out forms for more than three times these headings.

“At the end of June, for an Argentinian family, food and the payment of utilities represented 60% of their income. There are families who only eat once a day,” Escobar explained.

The proposal consists of three articles. The first institutes the freezing of the price of products in the Basic Food Basket determined by the National Institute of Statistics and the Census (INDEC). The following determines the brake on tariff increases also for one year, according to the new segmentation scheme. Finally, the executive power will be informed.

“The initiative accompanies the most affected families in Argentina, there are boys and girls who eat less milk, less meat. This means less nutrition and education. We need to reverse this in our country,” Saravia stressed.

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“We have a worrying diagnosis of the inflationary context and the economic future. That’s why we started this initiative,” he said. Daniela GaspariniSecretary General of Libre del Sur de CABA.

According to today’s mobilization schedule provided by Saravia, the Libre del Sur column located on Avenida de Mayo and 9 de Julio will leave from 11 a.m. to arrive at the National Congress at 12 p.m., where an act will take place. place with the presence of Escobar, Saravia, Gasparini.

The main slogan is: “MPs listen to the people” for the Constitutional Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies to deal with the bill to freeze the price of foodstuffs in the basic food basket and the prices of public services for a period of one year. year, “in the face of an inflation of almost one hundred percent a year that has devastated the incomes of the great popular majorities”, as described in the declaration of the left organization and that on March 3 he will participate in the assembly piquetero in the Plaza de Mayo to vote the next measures of force against the government of Alberto Fernández for the hundred thousand victims of the Potenciar Trabajo program announced by the Minister of Social Development, Victoria Toulouse Peace.

“The Chamber of Deputies approved a budget that is adjusted and continues to strictly adhere to IMF guidelines. Meanwhile, food inflation does not stop, because the government does not have the political will to stop it,” argued the presidential candidate of Libres del Sur.

For her part, Saravia remarked that “the Popular Initiative that we are promoting with nearly two million signatures is powerful. Leadership with legislative representation must prioritize what affects the people.”

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