Buenos Aires . Under a persistent rain, a group of disabled people and several families accompanying them began a candlelight vigil Tuesday night under tents set up in Plaza de Mayo to demand support from the deputies who will debate a court ruling Wednesday against President Javier Milei’s decree of necessity and urgency.
Milei vetoed the emergency disability law, which would leave millions of disabled people abandoned. The court declared the veto invalid, arguing, among other things, that "the rights of children with disabilities prevail over budgetary issues."
The families of two children with generalized disorders filed an injunction with a court in the town of Campana because the presidential veto left them without medical treatment, claiming the government “has no money.”
The court stated that this law would redress a right violated by the adjustment in the area, and the veto causes the progressive deterioration of health services and benefits, affecting people in vulnerable situations who demand special protection from the State, in compliance with constitutional and international obligations.
The government’s response that “there is no money” constitutes “a fallacious argument (…) and without any interpretative effort, it can be seen that the law empowers the government to make budgetary expansions and modifications to ensure funding for measures to protect and promote the rights of people with disabilities and their providers,” the court added.
Various organizations will march this Wednesday toward Congress, along with the State Workers Association and retirees, who will be joined by families camping out. Milei’s government has resorted to “vote buying” and pressured representatives, especially those from the pro-government sectors of the Radical Civic Union and others, in an attempt to prevent the rejection of four vetoes, including those on the emergency law for disability and also on retirees.
In the midst of the electoral campaign for the legislative elections, Milei needs the vetoes to be maintained, which would mean one less front than those currently shaking her government. The opposition, in addition to rejecting these vetoes, will also demand economic aid for Bahía Blanca, a province severely affected by flooding, whose reconstruction has not yet been completed due to a lack of funding from the national government. Added to this is the demand to advance without official obstacles in the investigation into the mega-scam involving the $Libra cryptocurrency, which involves the president, his cabinet, and his closest associates, which is being blocked by the executive branch.
