He governor Gerardo Morales Jujuy’s constitutional reform took place in the Legislature, while serious incidents between the Police and protesters occur in the mediations of the building. In this sense, the protesters threw stones, set fire and destroyed some vehicles, while others were turned over to be used as a barricade. Added to this, a group forced to enter the offices of the Legislature and caused an igneous focus that was quickly controlled by firefighters and police personnel.
Minutes prior to the declaration of the new Constitution, decided in Milagro Sala, militants of the Polo Obrero and members of other social organizations attacked the Legislature and confronted the police amid a hail of rubber bullets, pepper spray, stones, sticks and even fallen fences. Simultaneously, Morales jury in front of parliament and in less than a minute reform happened.
From 11:30 a.m. and before the knowledge of what was declared by the provincial president indoors, the protesters decide to force their way into the Legislature and even set it on fire. In this regard, hours after the event, Morales shared images of how the public building was left after the attack by the protesters.
“Tell me, do you think it is democratic to enter public buildings by force? Burn cars? Try to set fire to the Jujuy Legislature?” the head of the UCR wrote through his Twitter account, in a message on which he responded to President Alberto Fernández, who accused him of being “the only one responsible for having led our beloved province of Jujuy to this extreme situation.”
Alejandro Nieva, president of the Constitution Drafting Commission, announced that the protesters arrived at the Legislature and demolished the security barriers that had been installed in the morning. “They are Kirchner groups, they even came from other provinces, to generate this chaos that is taking place here.“, accurate.
After the protests in Jujuy, Gerardo Morales eliminated two articles of the new Constitution
The attackers also vandalized the windows of nearby stores and attacked police officers and professionals who were covering the events. An hour after the incidents began, the provincial Mounted Police intervened.
There are at least 30 police officers injured. Likewise, as reported by Télam, the incidents caused a balance of more than 40 injuries, one seriously due to head trauma, and some 17 detainees. So far there are two cars on fire. “We can’t take it anymore,” said one of the protesters. Television media showed the terrible moment in which one of the protesters received a can of pepper spray on his head and was seriously injured: “The cut exceeded the bone. He is alive but very sore,” reported a colleague.
In this sense, Pablo Jure, head of SAME Jujuy, said this afternoon that “between 50 and 70 patients” were attending, most of them with injuries as a result of “stones and rubber bullets.” “So far, only one of the injured is considered more serious, with head trauma,” explained the doctor. In addition, he specified that the affected people were referred from the Pablo Soria and San Roque hospitals, in addition to the North Specialty Center.
Gerardo Morales reformed the Constitution that limits the right to protest in Jujuy
Meanwhile, in a context of mobilization by the native communities, maintain a blockade of national route 9 at the height of Purmamarca, north of Jujuy.
Through his personal Twitter account, Gerardo Morales said: “I hold the president @alferdez and the vice president @CFKArgentina responsible for the extreme violence that is being experienced in the province of Jujuy. The violent are not going to twist our arms. After 40 years of democracy, I repudiate and call on all Argentines to repudiate what Kirchnerism and the Left Front are doing in Jujuy”.
For his part, the presidential candidate Horacio Rodríguez Larreta pposted: “What is happening in Jujuy is an example of what Kirchnerism is capable of resisting change. Hand in hand with Milagro Sala, he went out to break the entire Provincial Legislature where a constitutional reform decided by the people through their representatives was being approved. We are going to find this type of anti-democratic violence from December 10 when we begin to transform the lives of Argentines forever, and we are going to bank just like @GerardoMorales is doing with the Constitution and the law as flags, We are not going to let anyone want to wear the change that we Argentines are going to decide. All my support for Gerardo and all the good people of Jujuy who want to live better”.
Quoting the Tweet posted by Gerardo Morales, Mary Eugenia Vidal added: They are the same ones who threw 14 tons of stones against Congress, those with mortars, those who block roads and avenues without leaving a lane for workers and ambulances, those who today in Jujuy set fire to the Legislature. They are the Sena, the Milagro Sala, the Grabois. Those who are silent in front of Cecilia’s mother. Neither today in Jujuy, nor in Argentina after December 10, will they be able to fight democracy. We’re not going to give in.”
What does the constitutional reform say in Jujuy
Constituent Assembly of Jujuy swore the partial reform of the provincial Magna Carta, promoted by the government of Gerardo Morales. this prohibits blocking roads and streets, as well as the occupation of public buildings.
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