The opposition will try to repeal the decree on the armed forces

The main opposition blocs do not agree on the role that the
Armed Forces in this stage of Argentina. But all agreed yesterday in the same claim: the reform that aims to implement the government can not be resolved by decree, but rather
must go through the Congress

In different ways and for the moment without coordination between them, the seats of the deputies of the Front for Victory (FPV), the Front Renovador, the Bloc Justicialista, the Movement Evita and Libres del On the first steps to advance in the repeal of Decree 683/18, with which the President


Mauricio Macri
allowed the participation of the army in the fight against drug trafficking and terrorism and other internal security tasks.

"With a regulatory decree, the government is trying to legitimize military intervention in the" new threats ", such as drug trafficking and terrorism, which is absolutely unconstitutional," is based on the foundations of the law. a plan to repeal the decree of Macri, presented yesterday by the leader of the FPV bloc, Agustín Rossi, other deputies of this bloc and the member of the Movement Evita Lucila De Ponti

"Never a regulatory decree can change the text of a law, in this the Homeland Security Act, which establishes the cases in which the armed forces can intervene in the matter, "added the deputies. They opted for a bill, which has a paradoxical background: in 2014, Patricia Bullrich, then a parliamentarian, presented an initiative to repeal the decree of Néstor Kirchner that Macri has just modified

In the same line, the deputies Victoria Donda (Free South), Daniel Arroyo (Renovating Front) and Araceli Ferreyra (Evita Movement) will give a press conference tomorrow at 12pm.

These areas point out as the most worrisome point of Macri's decree that the article was amended from Kirchner's decree which circumscribed the intervention of the armed forces to an external aggression of an "army" foreign state ".

Mbadism fixes its position by means of a communiqué, in which it announces the presentation of a draft resolution to reject the presidential decree and request the sending of a draft of law. "One of the functions that corresponds to the Congress is to dictate the standards for the organization and the government of the Armed Forces, being the Chamber of Deputies the one that must initiate the treatment of the legislation on this subject," said the head of the FR block, Graciela Camaño

The MP recalled that in 2017 his bloc presented a project to expand the functions of the armed forces. "It would be timely and practical for Congress to legislate for the Armed Forces to be able to intervene in the fight against complex crimes, it can not be done by decree," he said.

The president of the Bloc justicialiste has shown a similar position. "We agree to request that the decree be repealed and that the debate on the criteria for a modern and democratic internal security be allowed in Congress," he said.

The MP clarified that this did not coincide with the content of the presidential decree: "We do not refuse to seek operational contributions from the military in the border areas, but it must not act d & # 39; an "ordinary" competition of the armed forces in matters of internal security. "

Kosiner added that without changing the law "the government should convene the Internal Security Council to coordinate the contribution of the infrastructure and logistics of the Ministry of Defense to the security policy in the border area for the fight against drug trafficking. "