The Banking Association (AB) expressed his strong repudiation of the Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU) announced by the president Javier Milei during Wednesday night on national television. In a statement issued this Thursday and signed by the secretary general, Sergio Palazzothe union expresses its forceful rejection of the regulations, considering it as an attack that undermines and damages the fundamental principles of democracy and institutions.
The union declared itself in a state of alert and mobilization, also denouncing the proposal to transform the Banco Nación and public banking entities in public limited companies for the purpose of their eventual sale or liquidationan aspect that they emphatically repudiate, considering it a purely commercial treatment and unrelated to its true social function.
“We will see each other in the streets, we are not willing to accept this brutal and savage adjustment, nor to give up any rights!!!”
“There is a social function that should never be resigned and It is the reason for being of this type of institutions“, maintains the text, in which they rejected and “strongly” repudiated what was announced by Milei and published in the Official Gazette.
The memory of 2001
The bankers also recalled that the initiative was announced to coincide with the 22nd anniversary of the social outbreak of 2001.
“The president starts by saying that it is a historic day… A day like today, but sadly historic, was when in 2001 there was a savage repression that ended the lives of several citizens.s, who were precisely demanding their rights and marked the end of a government that was leaving by helicopter with a country on fire,” the statement said.
And he adds: “It has been 22 years since that unfortunate episode and as a disastrous coincidence of fate and certain degree of cynicism, on this same date this DNU is announcedwith countless repeals of laws, plagiarizing what happened at that time (even coincidentally with many of its protagonists) and aggravated by a lot of monstrosities, even from a legal point of view.
And he adds: “There is no need or urgency for this battery of measures, which are clearly to the detriment and detriment of the Argentine people and their workers and no one else.“.
Meanwhile, the AB considered that “there is no need or urgency for this battery of measures, which are clearly to the detriment and detriment of the Argentine people and their workers and no one else” and added: “We are still wondering at what point we to be chaste and The royal caste became a mere spectator of this sinister spectacle“.
For the union, the DNU “It represents a setback in Argentine history, decades that we thought were forgotten, it overwhelms and hits democracy, the institutions, it only generates pain and suffering in the people and even in the people who hopeful voted for this space.“.
Finally, they declared themselves in “state of alert and mobilization, in defense of the workers and the people as a whole“.
Source: Ambito
