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Argentine Congress upholds Milei veto of pensions increase amid protests
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9/12/2024
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As President Javier Mele was winning the battle inside the National Congress, outside, anger
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among protesters was rising. There were clashes with police, but to little effect on the five
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hours of stormy debate inside the chamber. The opposition failed to gather the votes
00:17
required to bypass the presidential veto.
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Mele had used his prerogative to defeat a bill that would have raised pensions by 8.1
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per cent. Pensions in Argentina lag far behind rampant inflation, which has been as high
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as 95 per cent since the start of the year. Unable to make ends meet, Argentinians are
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increasingly desperate.
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I'm retired and I don't have enough. I buy two kilos of meat, two kilos of bread and
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it's all gone.
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I don't make it to the end of the month. I can't. Like everybody, I have had to stop
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buying food. I've had to change a lot of what I buy.
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Since his inauguration last December, Javier Mele has been imposing punishing austerity
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on the country, he says, to balance Argentina's budget. But though inflation has eased in
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recent months, poverty continues to rise. A report by the Catholic University of Argentina
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says 55 per cent of Argentinians now live below the poverty line, with 17.5 per cent
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destitute, the highest rate since the country's Great Depression of 2002.
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