There was no agreement at the meeting between the Minister of Social Development, Victoria Tolosa Paz, and leaders of the Piquetera Unit (UP), for which the organizations ratified the measure of force scheduled for tomorrow throughout the country. Toloza Paz held his first meeting with leftist organizations after landing at the Ministry of Development with the intention of deactivating the mobilization that UP announced for tomorrow in front of the portfolio building on 9 de Julio Avenue. The idea of the organizations was to stay there until the official met in person with them, something that was advanced for today, but was not successful. The complex relationship between the leaders and the ministry began a new chapter last week after President Alberto Fernández signed Decree 728, which prohibits the entry of new beneficiaries to the Empower Work. The Minister of Development said after the meeting: “We delimited the most important points, we discussed the scope and regulatory issues of both Decree 728 and Decree 551 of “Bridge to Employment” – which comes in handy in the textile and footwear industry – because we want to continue promoting the inclusion of sectors of the popular economy to registered work “.” We have to regularize the situation of lack of supply of essential products, it is part of what we are doing, generating agreements with vast sectors of family farming to work very hard with nutritional quality, “he added. Despite this, the organizations made a negative balance of the meeting, the referent of the Polo Obrero, Eduardo Belliboni, said: “We take an enormous uncertainty because they make us promises that have already been made to us and that they have to fulfill, with things as elementary as food and tools, but that we do not see that appear. ”
“The mobilization in the country as we had planned and we are going to discuss this afternoon in assembly the characteristics of it with other organizations that make up the Piquetero Unit,” Belliboni said.
The groups of the UP announced a mobilization for tomorrow with concentration and possibility of permanence in front of the headquarters of that ministry, on Belgrano and 9 de Julio avenues, in downtown Buenos Aires, in demand of the “universal opening of programs for all those who need it” and the granting of quotas for “genuine work in public works.” The call for tomorrow’s day of protest was reflected in a statement from the Polo Obrero (PO), MTR Votamos Luchar, CUBA-MTR, Movimiento 29 de Mayo, the Armando Conciencia Group, the MTR 12 de Abril, Organización 17 de Noviembre, Barrios de Pie-Libres del Sur, the MST Teresa Vive and the Bloque Piquetero Nacional. the Resistance Front, the Coordinator for Social Change, fractions of the Front of Organizations in Struggle (FOL) and the Darío Santillán Popular Front (FPDS), and FAR Marabunta, among others.
