Celeste Cid questioned the Omnibus Law: “National culture is not a privilege”

Actress Celeste Cid questioned the draft Omnibus Law called the “Law of Bases and Starting Points for the Freedom of Argentines”, which includes a sharp reduction in funding for policies to promote national art and proposes the elimination of INADI. “National culture is not a privilege,” began the artist of television series and strips such as “Planners”, “Resistiré” and “Las Estrellas” on her social networks, rejecting the measure, while adding: “It is a right of the people.” Celeste Cid questioned the Omnibus Law: “National culture is not a privilege” | Instagram @mcelestiaEl 351-page piece of writing with more than 664 articles repeals the Single Book Price Law, establishes reforms on the National Institute of Music (Inamu), eliminates the National Institute of Theater (INT), the National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism (INADI) and the National Fund for the Arts (FNA), it defunds the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA) and public institutions such as the National School of Cinematographic Experimentation and Realization (ENERC). In this context, this Thursday, January 4, sectors of culture gathered in the Plaza del Congreso, on Entre Ríos streets, between H. Yrigoyen and Rivadavia, in the City of Buenos Aires, starting at 6 p.m. to express their opposition to the project sent by the Executive Branch of President Javier Milei. to be dealt with in extraordinary sessions of the National Congress.You may also be interested in: The National Audiovisual Space warns that the Omnibus Law “puts at risk the continuity of Argentine cinema”In this sense, four commissions began today in the Chamber of Deputies, those of: Budget and Finance, Foreign Relations, Constitutional Affairs and General Legislation.

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