Milei accused of institutional violence that he exercises with his statements

Buenos Aires. “I would love to put the last nail in the box of Kirchnerism with Cristina in it” was the phrase of the president, Javier Milei during an interview last night with TN, the television of the pro-government Grupo Clarín, in a direct threat, which caused the repudiation of various sectors of society, and prompted the response of the two-time former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner: “now you also want to kill me? (….) Even if they kill me and not even the ashes remain of me… your government is a failure and you as president embarrass others.”

Messages of repudiation began to arrive early from union centers, social movements, politicians and deputies from the opposition Union for the Homeland (UP) presented a draft resolution in Congress to repudiate Milei’s violent statements.

Legislator Carolina Gaillard warned that the comment is a “clear incitement to violence” and said that the president must take charge of the disaster generated by his administration. “It is the only way to govern that they have: through institutional violence, the disqualification of others, and ignoring the Constitution and the democratic system. It is a messianic and foundational model where no one who thinks differently enters. The construction of a serious political alternative is very important.”He stressed that this type of speech “enables, in symbolic and practical terms, situations of violence against opposition leaders.”

The initiative, supported by several legislators, maintains that Milei’s statements not only seek to politically eliminate an opposition force, but also delegitimize the role of the opposition in the democratic system. It was also recalled that this happens two years after the assassination attempt against the former president, on September 1, 2022, who was then vice president when a young man twice triggered a pistol that jammed, pointing ten centimeters from the head of Fernández de Kirchner, who was surrounded by militants.

Two years have passed and justice has not been done, only three accused are in court, because the case was left in the hands of Judge Eugenia Capuchetti, linked to the former right-wing president Mauricio Macri, and the so-called Judicial Party that survives to this day. The same thing happens with the prosecutor of the same case Carlos Rívolo, who stopped the investigation when it was discovered that the thread reached the Caputo family, among them the current Minister of Economy Luis Toto Caputo in the same position under Milei’s government.

Fernández de Kirchner, in the message on social networks addressed directly to Milei, said that she saw him as “nervous and aggressive” and noted that “it would be good if, instead of insulting me left and right, and threatening me with my death, you found a way for me to Argentines can eat again four times a day and at home, their children can grow up healthy to be able to study and progress, and the elderly can have their medicines to be able to live”, remembering that “there was already a time in Argentina, in which “It was thought that the death of the adversary was the solution.”

For his part, constitutional lawyer Andrés Gil Domínguez, consulted by local television, warned that the president has “the total exercise of freedom of expression,” but must take charge of the “subsequent responsibilities and civil and criminal consequences” that may arise. have their sayings, to the extent that they generate immediate direct damage to people or institutions. He also maintained that “because of the position he holds,” Milei’s statements “can generate greater damage and impact, whether in the privacy and honor of people or in the functioning of institutions.”

This is aggravated because to act in these cases “civil and criminal justice has to function. “If they are going to close the files in 24 hours without doing any minimal investigation, then we are complicated because the president’s freedom of expression is transformed into impunity of expression without any type of legal consequences.”

The threats against the president achieved the repudiation of all Peronism, highlighting the messages from the governor of La Rioja, Ricardo Quintela, and the governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, which were part of an internal incomprehensible for the Peronist militants at a time. so serious that the country is experiencing. The intern is for whoever will occupy the presidency of the Justicialist Party (Peronist) and there is a call from the militancy to avoid an unnecessary and dangerous intern in these circumstances.

It was also known in these hours what Milei sent an official communication to the diplomatic corps, in which threatened ambassadors and senior Foreign Service officials that align with the positions that he expressed in the United Nations Organization against the Agenda 2030.

In fact, he had also reduced the diplomats’ salaries by 40 percent without consulting anyone, which created a rarefied atmosphere in the chancellery. The haste in taking these measures increases uncertainty in these hours.