Social and political organizations protested against the agreement with the IMF

Social, political, trade union and business organizations demonstrated today in the Plaza del Congreso in rejection of the Government’s agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In addition, they analyze the possibility of installing a camp during the night. The demonstrators gathered at 3:00 p.m. at the corner of Avenida de Mayo and 9 de Julio, and, from there, mobilized towards the Plaza del Congreso.In turn, a sector of social organizations was considering carrying out a camp during the night in the vicinity of the Congress, on the eve of the session in which the agreement with the IMF will be debated. Among the convening organizations are the CTAA, the Clasista y Combativa Current (CCC), the Union of Land Workers (UTT), the Association of State Workers (ATE), SMEs for National Development, the Free Organization of the People (OLP), Popular Unity, Sobreranxs del Trabajo y del Pueblo (PTP), Causa Nacional and the Communist Party (PC).” Today we are mobilizing again in protest, but we have proposals. Our position is historical with this and other debts, investigate the debt, the debts are paid, the scams are not. We mobilize to raise our disagreement and that disagreement has proposals: we are going to deliver to the Government and Congress our proposal that is to review this agreement, we cannot resign ourselves to surrender sovereignty to the adjustment over adjustment that will exacerbate the levels of poverty and indigence. We have to have active policies to get out of this situation,” Ricardo Peidro, secretary general of the Autonomous CTA, told reporters in a statement. For his part, José Cudina, of the organization SMEs for National Development, said: “This agreement is not sufficiently disseminated and discussed, there is a great ignorance of what we are going to sign and what will condition us in the future. We believe that it is necessary to convene more sectors, a greater number of comrades from the union and territorial sectors.”

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