Global Courant
It was in 2014 and before Congress. The then president recalled an anecdote in New York and called for a “rule of urban coexistence.”
Several leaders of the ruling party, led by Cristina Kirchner, came out to blame Governor Gerardo Morales for the very serious incidents that broke out in Jujuy after the provincial Constitutional reform. Among the modifications to the provincial Magna Carta, article 67 is the one that unleashed the violent protests and criticism of Kirchnerism: it prohibits roadblocks, an idea that CFK had raised almost a decade ago, when she was president, in Congress.
Specifically, Article 67 of the new Constitution of Jujuy “prohibits blocking roads and streets” and the “occupation of public buildings” as a method of protest. In addition, he intends that a future law of the provincial legislature regulates this article and obliges the protesters to “priorly notify the police where they will march” to avoid the collapse of the city.
In this sense, Morales ratified: “You cannot take a school, you cannot take a hospital and you cannot block streets and you cannot block routes”
Although Cristina Kirchner was now vehemently against the governor’s initiative, she had raised something very similar almost ten years ago, in her second term as president. It was in March 2014, during his opening speech at the 132nd period of ordinary sessions in the National Congress.
“It cannot be that ten people block a street and nothing happens,” he said in that inaugural speech that was refloated on social networks before the Jujuy scene.
“Everyone has the right to protest, but not by blocking the streets and preventing people from going to work, it must be done without complicating the life of the other,” Kirchner continued.
In this sense, he stated: “I think we are going to have to legislate on a norm of respect and urban coexistence. We are going to have to legislate and, above all, the Justice has to act in these cases because we cannot organize things alone ” .
Immediately afterwards, before the legislature, he sought the support of the opposition: “Although in the economy we think in the antipodes, even if we do not agree with YPF, even if we do not agree on anything, in respect for the citizens, let us agree for Please, I don’t ask for anything else.”
“Let’s organize ourselves as a society, let’s allow ourselves to protest, there is a right to protest, but we must respect other citizens,” insisted that Cristina Kirchner.
Cristina Kirchner and the memory of New York
Cristina Kirchner got involved on Tuesday in a sharp round trip with Morales due to the serious incidents that took place in Jujuy. In that crossing on Twitter, he even allowed himself ironies and movie references.
He even allowed himself to recommend seeing a series that portrays the 2001 crisis as a comparison to what happened in Jujuy. In 2014, as president, she had the same style, even when she argued with self-referential experiences in directions contrary to the current ones.
Cristina Kirchner, in 2014, the day she asked to legislate to avoid roadblocks in protests, at an opening session in Congress. Photo DYN
Always ready to add anecdotes to her speeches, the current vice president recalled her experience in the streets of New York in 2014, when she witnessed an operation at a protest against then US President George W. Bush.
“I do not pretend that it is like the United States. In 1999, or a little before, I was in New York and I saw what the protests were like. On the sidewalk they put fences up to the curb, from corner to corner, and they leave a place at each entrance of businesses. People go inside the fences and protest from there,” he said.
Although he finally conceded: “I don’t pretend so much because Argentines are a little more messy.”
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