Javier Milei has been elected president of Argentina: Madman or genius?

[Bluegazer]

First notes on the announcements of Milei's national chain:

Derogation of the Land Law: it will allow the sale and delivery of territory and resources to foreign powers.

Derogation of the Industrial Promotion Law: it annihilates Tierra del Fuego. The province is on the verge of bankruptcy and depopulation, which favors British interests in Malvinas and Antarctica.

Labor reform: confirmed the flexibilization in favor of corporate interests.

Derogation of the Supply, Gondolas and Buy Argentine laws: it favors the monopoly in domestic trade, eliminates the protection of small and medium sized companies.

Privatization of public enterprises: handing over technological and industrial resources to foreigners.

Enables massive imports and unlimited exports: bankrupts SMEs, drains domestic consumption.

Open skies policy: Elimination of Aerolíneas Argentinas to hand over our sovereignty over the skies.

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And while I am sharing this here, people who did not go out to protest in Plaza de Mayo, went out in their neighborhoods to make the already known protests as cacerolazo (go out with your pots and pans and make noise). 10 days of government. Only 10 days and this is already happening. You have seen the warning. It happened here and it can happen in the rest of the world....

 

[mkrnhr]

In other words, he just sold the country.

 

[Puma]

THOUSANDS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST MILEI'S ECONOMIC PLAN IN ARGENTINA

Anti-government protesters march against economic adjustment measures in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023.

Days after taking office, Argentina's President Javier Milei announced a drastic spending reduction and adjustment plan that was rejected by social and union organizations. In addition, he warned that roadblocks during demonstrations will be punished.

The protest march called this Wednesday by social organizations against the economic plan of the new president of Argentina, Javier Milei, began with isolated clashes between demonstrators and riot police officers of the Federal Police who tried to force them to parade on the sidewalk to avoid, unsuccessfully, the traffic cuts.

The first incidents between the Gendarmerie and the demonstrators called by the Polo Obrero (PO) and other social and leftist organizations took place after 16:00 local time (19.00 GMT) in the heart of the center of the Argentine capital, where in the morning there was a calm and normal atmosphere.

Several thousand people began to march from the corner of Diagonal Norte and Belgrano Avenue towards the emblematic Plaza de Mayo, where the Casa Rosada is located. The demonstrators marched peacefully, but in breach of the new security protocol established by the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, which prohibits street blockades during demonstrations and provides for harsh sanctions against those who violate it.

The organizers of the march complained about the police treatment, after riot police officers pushed them with their shields to force them to march on the sidewalk. They also denounced that the federal police and Gendarmerie troops intervened in the city of Buenos Aires, without -according to them- having been requested to do so by the local authorities.

The situation led to isolated races and clashes, but ended up normalizing minutes later. Local media reported the arrest of two demonstrators.

Miles de personas se manifiestan contra el plan económico de Milei en Argentina | El Universal

Los participantes del contingente marcharon de forma pacífica, pero incumpliendo el nuevo protocolo de seguridad establecido por la ministra de Seguridad, Patricia Bullrich, que prohíbe los cortes de calles durante las manifestaciones

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Willingness test act one.

 

[Puma]

Protesters chant "MILEI basura vos sos la dictadura" (You are the dictatorship).
-He is literally the MOST VOTED President in the HISTORY of Argentina.

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Argentina's police hydrant trucks have ink to mark lefties who commit crimes so they can be arrested later and their social plans can be taken away. Do you agree with these socks of Milei and Bullrich?

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In Chaco, Argentina, the protocol is followed. The lefties who were blocking the tracks were forcibly removed from the tracks. Do you support this police service?

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Milei has been in government in Argentina for 10 days and they already have a national cacerolazo.
In Chile we already know how that ends.

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[Bluegazer]

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Just one thing. Beware of some guys like this Eduardo Menoni. He is of the same liberal mold as Milei, with some variations. He is another information mercenary. He uses rhetorical questions to mask his true opinion and denigrates things about Argentina, based on ignorance and bad intentions. Nationalists and patriots have already identified him.

In this tweet, he singles out Eva Peron as a socialist. And it is totally false. As I have already debunked here, Peronism was always anti-communist and anti-socialist as described by Peron himself in his explanation of the Synarchy, Social Democracy being one of the six internationals.

What is true is that progressivism, or rather Argentine Wokism, has usurped the figure of Eva Peron, giving her a pro-feminist character, for example, when she was always the opposite. Eva Peron already in her time denounced the feminism of today, and that is in her books in her own handwriting. Maybe I will dedicate a short post to it, to his figure and what he really thought, since I have a copy of one of his books.

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They are the ones who denounce the elite, until a price appears.

 

[Puma]

Just one thing. Beware of some guys like this Eduardo Menoni. He is of the same liberal mold as Milei, with some variations

Yes, that's true. I also thought I would include other pro-Milei views. It gives us a little broader picture.

I fear for the Argentine people, yesterday Milei completely unleashed the beast of neoliberalism. It is already an every man for himself situation. There will no longer be laws to protect the people against the abuses of businessmen in the name of the free market and Milei called this "deregulation of the economy".

The derogation of the rent law, so that the real estate market will work again without problems and renting will not be an odyssey.

The derogation of the rental law, for example, will allow the owners of buildings, apartments and houses to set the rents as they wish, and that is what they call flexibility. Now they tell Argentines that they have the power to negotiate. But how are they going to be able to negotiate when in real terms their salary has dropped by half and this will be used mostly to buy foodstuffs whose price has increased.

That is pure evil.

 

[Bluegazer]

Maybe I will dedicate a short post to it, to his figure and what he really thought, since I have a copy of one of his books.

Well, here I share with you the thoughts of Eva Peron. They are just a few paragraphs from the book, La Razon de Mi Vida.

The attached images are from the book whose edition was printed in September 1951.

The Passage from the Sublime to the Ridiculous.

I confess that the day I was faced with the possibility of the "feminist" path I was a little afraid.

What could I, a humble woman from the village, do where other women, more prepared than me, had failed miserably?

To fall into ridicule? To join the nucleus of women resentful of women and men, as has happened to countless feminist leaders? Neither was I a single woman of advanced years, nor was I so ugly as to occupy such a position... which, in general, in the world, from the English feminists to here, belongs, almost with exclusive right, to women of that type... women whose first vocation must undoubtedly have been that of men.

And so ordered the movements they led!

They seemed to be dominated by the spite of not having been born men, rather than by the pride of being women.

They even believed that it was a disgrace to be women... Resentful of women because they did not want to stop being women and resentful of men because they were not allowed to be like them, the "feminists", the vast majority of feminists in the world as far as I know, constituted a rare species of woman... who never seemed to me to be quite a woman!

And I didn't feel very willing to look like them.

One day the General (Perón) gave me the explanation I needed.

Don' t you see that they have gone astray? They want to be men. It is as if to save the workers I wanted to make them oligarchs. I would have run out of workers. And I don't think I would have been able to improve the oligarchy at all. Don't you see that this kind of "feminists" disown women. Some of them don't even wear make-up... because that, according to them, is proper for women. Don't you see that they want to be men? And if what the world needs is a political and social movement of women, what little will the world gain if women want to save it by imitating us men!

We have already done too many strange things on our own, and we have made such a mess of every thing that I don't know if it will be possible to fix the world again. Maybe women can save us on condition that they don't imitate us.

I remember well that lesson of the General. It never seemed to me so clear and luminous his thought. That was what I felt. I felt that the women's movement in my country and in the whole world had a sublime mission to fulfill... and everything I knew about feminism seemed ridiculous to me. It was not driven by women, but by "it" that aspired to be a man, but not a woman, and it was nothing! Feminism had taken the step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

And that is the step I try never to take!

Sound familiar? I mean, with all that we have witnessed from the feminist movement, and its contradictions. Already by the distant year of 1951 you could see what was going to happen.

 

[Puma]

Argentina on its way to an Orwellian state,

The Ministry of love...no. no the Ministry of Security disseminated its warning on posters and loudspeakers at train stations in the Metropolitan Area.​

"The Ministry of Security informs: if you are going to exercise your right to protest, take into account that you can only do it in authorized places. Remember that blocking a street, avenue or road is a crime punishable by law. If you suffer any extortion to attend a demonstration, remember that you can report it anonymously by calling 134."​

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The Ministry of Security, headed by Patricia Bullrich, this morning placed signs at Constitución Station with the legend "He who cuts does not get paid" and reminded those who mobilize this afternoon that in case of exercising their right to protest "they can only do it in authorized places because cutting a street is a crime punishable by law".

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[Natus Videre]

Argentina on its way to an Orwellian state,

The Ministry of love...no. no the Ministry of Security disseminated its warning on posters and loudspeakers at train stations in the Metropolitan Area.​

Orwell-1984.
Argentina-2024.

(L) Is there anything we need to know or ask? Consider it asked to help us out through this turmoil...

A: Things will get worse before they get better. Stay alert and use knowledge!!! Goodbye.

 

[Ina]

@Bluegazer and @Puma, thank you for the information, although so, so, sad. Do you know what is happening in provinces, like Salta, Jujuy or Catamarca? I worked in the areas surrounding the Puna (of Atacama) and my heart remained totally connected.

 

[Puma]

Jujuy also mobilized against Milei's adjustment and Bullrich's protocol.

This Thursday an important mobilization went through the central streets of Jujuy. The vindication of December 20, 2001 was joined with the demands against Milei's chainsaw plan and the repressive attempts of the anti picket protocol of Minister Bullrich.

20D. Jujuy también movilizó contra el ajuste de Milei y el protocolo de Bullrich

Este jueves una importante movilización recorrió las calles céntricas de Jujuy. La reivindicación del 20 de diciembre de 2001 se unió con las demandas contra el plan motosierra de Milei y los intentos represivos del protocolo anti piquetes de la ministra Bullrich.

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@Ina The protest in Jujuy was peaceful.

 

[Ina]

Jujuy also mobilized against Milei's adjustment and Bullrich's protocol.

This Thursday an important mobilization went through the central streets of Jujuy. The vindication of December 20, 2001 was joined with the demands against Milei's chainsaw plan and the repressive attempts of the anti picket protocol of Minister Bullrich.

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20D. Jujuy también movilizó contra el ajuste de Milei y el protocolo de Bullrich

Este jueves una importante movilización recorrió las calles céntricas de Jujuy. La reivindicación del 20 de diciembre de 2001 se unió con las demandas contra el plan motosierra de Milei y los intentos represivos del protocolo anti piquetes de la ministra Bullrich.

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@Ina The protest in Jujuy was peaceful.

Thank you and Thanks GOD!

 

[Bluegazer]

@Bluegazer and @Puma, thank you for the information, although so, so, sad. Do you know what is happening in provinces, like Salta, Jujuy or Catamarca? I worked in the areas surrounding the Puna (of Atacama) and my heart remained totally connected.

There are protests in several provinces. Some are peaceful. Others are not.

Cordoba:

Hubo nuevas protestas contra el DNU y una marcha en Córdoba terminó con incidentes

Grupos de vecinos se concentraron por segundo día consecutivo frente al Congreso de la Nación y en distintos puntos de CABA. En Córdoba los manifestantes se enfrentaron a la policía y como consecuencia se registraron heridos y detenidos

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There were new protests against the DNU and a march in Córdoba ended with incidents.

Groups of neighbors gathered for the second consecutive day in front of the National Congress and in different points of CABA. In Córdoba, demonstrators clashed with the police, resulting in injuries and arrests.

Cacerolazos en todo el país, represión en Córdoba | Protestas en rechazo a DNU de Javier Milei

Miles de personas volvieron a manifestarse contra el DNU de Javier Milei en diferentes puntos de los grandes centros urbanos. La policía cordobesa cargó contra la gente en el Patio Olmos, con golpes y gas pimienta, y hubo detenidos. En la Ciudad de Bue...

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Thousands of people demonstrated again against Javier Milei's DNU at different points of the big urban centers. The police in Córdoba charged against the people in the Patio Olmos, with blows and pepper gas, and people were arrested.

In the City of Buenos Aires, meanwhile, a large number of demonstrators moved to the vicinity of the National Congress, banging their pots and pans on the sidewalk, guarded by the Federal Police, whose officers openly showed themselves filming the participants, lined up on the steps of the Legislative Palace, behind bars.

The marches were repeated in Rosario, Santa Fe, Mar del Plata, Bariloche, Ushuaia, Junín, Resistencia, among other localities of the country.

On a side note, I guess I could tell you about the security minister: Patricia Bullrich. Whose criminal record (yes, I say criminal record because to call her political career to her actions is to whitewash what she really does).

Biografía de Patricia Bullrich | Historia y resumen cronológico

Tiene 67 años, en 2023. Patricia Bullrich es una dirigente política argentina. Doctora en ciencias políticas. En su juventud, integró la agrupación guerrillera Montoneros. Participó en diversos partidos políticos. Desplegó(...)

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Patricia Bullrich - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre

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Regardless of what her biography says on wikipedia and other sites, she has been functioning as a double agent, a mole, a traitor to the homeland and other epithets that are not enough to describe her.

If you wonder how she and others of her ilk continue to thrive in politics with their shady business dealings, it is because the judiciary here is also corrupt to the core.

 

[Chu]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it, what Milei did and said is not yet definite, yes?

It's a DNU, or "Necessity and Urgency Decree". From Wiki in English:

The possibility to promulgate DNUs is established in the article 99 of the Constitution of Argentina since 1994.As its name indicates, a Necessity and Urgency Decree is to be used only under exceptional situations, when it is not possible to follow the normal procedure to create laws in the Congress. There must be a "necessity" situation (the code specify it as an overwhelming emergency) and "urgency" (when the emergency is so alarming that needs a solution as quickly as possible). In addition, the President cannot sanction DNUs legislating about criminal, tributary or electoral matters.[2]

As with regular decrees, Necessity and Urgency Decrees are promulgated by the President, but only with "General Agreement of Ministers" (Spanish: Acuerdo general de ministros). It means that all Ministers and the Chief of Staff must take part in the DNU's creation.[2]

Once the Necessity and Urgency Decree is sanctioned, the Chief of Staff must send the DNU to the Permanent Bicameral Committee of the Congress in no more than ten days. Then, the Bicameral Committee delivers its report to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. The committee has also ten days to elaborate the report. During all this process, the DNU is completely in force.[2][3]

Each legislative chamber must deliver a resolution expressing its approval or rejection of the Necessity and Urgency Decree. If both chambers reject the DNU, it loses validity permanently. However, any rights acquired by people affected by the decree are not automatically terminated.[3]

I don't know how it all works, but I do know that there have been many of these decrees (not such an emergency decree after all!). But how likely is it that both chambers will approve it, and can they decide to approve only some of the proposed measures? If I understand correctly, as long as one chamber approves, it's a go, and he doesn't need both of them. But it's a bit confusing...

 

[Bluegazer]

I don't know how it all works, but I do know that there have been many of these decrees (not such an emergency decree after all!). But how likely is it that both chambers will approve it, and can they decide to approve only some of the proposed measures? If I understand correctly, as long as one chamber approves, it's a go, and he doesn't need both of them. But it's a bit confusing...

What I understand is that, emergency or not, to issue the DNU, the problem is what that DNU does.

And in this case, the DNU takes measures that go against the Argentine Constitution.

¿El DNU es constitucional? Qué dicen los principales especialistas sobre las reformas que propone Milei

El mensaje por cadena nacional en la cuál Milei adelanto 30 de las medidas detalladas en el DNU 70/2023 generó una oleada de críticas en sectores opositores y especialistas del universo constitucional.¿Qué dijeron?

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After the President, Javier Milei, yesterday announced on national TV 30 of the 300 measures that make up the "bases for the reconstruction of the Argentine economy", many specialists of the constitutional universe learned that the reforms promoted by the Executive through the decree of necessity and urgency (DNU), which was published today in the Official Gazette, do not comply with the requirements of the Magna Carta.

Is Milei's DNU unconstitutional? What the experts say

In a radio interview, Daniel Sabsay, professor and director of the graduate program in Constitutional Law (UBA), stated that the decree "is unconstitutional", since he considered that there is no exceptional circumstance that prevents the procedure of enactment of laws through the Legislative Power.

Regarding the publication of the DNU, he explained that "there is neither necessity nor urgency, nor is Congress prevented from meeting". He described the package of measures as "crazy" and added: "I do not remember anything like this, neither in Menem's time, nor in the military government".

On the other hand, Féliz Lonigro explained that the DNU becomes effective the day after its publication, even without the approval of one of the Chambers of the Bicameral Commission, which is the body that omits the opinion so that the decree can be dealt with in Congress. "The only objection I would make is that it is a mega-decree, and that it may happen that one of the Chambers of the Bicameral Commission does not agree with some of those issues", he analyzed in an interview with TN.

Antonio María Hernández, a lawyer from the University of Córdoba who was a member of the Constitutional Convention during the 1994 reform, talked to La Nación and criticized Milei's position: "The Executive Power cannot in any case, under penalty of absolute and irrevocable nullity, issue provisions of a legislative nature. This has to do with the balance of powers", he analyzed.

Another specialist who expressed his opinion on the matter was Andrés Gil Domínguez. "The DNU 70/2023 is a clear attempt to sum up public power, it does not prove an objective emergency situation only a need to impose a political project, the Congress can function and debate the issues, it affects the division of powers and is contrary to the Republic", expressed the lawyer in a Twitter thread(X).

"The Executive Branch cannot exercise legislative functions under penalty of absolute and insanable nullity because it violates the division of powers as expressed in art. 99 of the Constitution. In other words, if it does so, the legislative norm is considered non-existent," he referred.

"To derogate 300 laws and modify more than 300 laws by means of DNU is an attempt to sum up the public power forbidden by art. 29 of the Constitution that transforms the PEN into the Legislative Advisory Commission of the 21st century. It is the extinction of Congress as the heart of democracy", he added in another publication.

When through the DNUs an attempt is made to substitute Congress in its legislative function, then by means of the diversion of power and the abuse of public law an attempt is made to obtain the sum of power prohibited by the CA in Art. 29 and considered treason to the homeland.

In a conversation with El Cronista, Gil Domínguez explained that, if any legal action is filed against the mega-decree, it will have to go through all the stages before reaching the Supreme Court's final resolution. On the other hand, another point to be taken into account is its passage through Congress: it must be approved or rejected in its entirety, it cannot be done in parts.

In the same line, the constitutional lawyer Raúl Ferreyra described the decree published by Milei as "an act of force that goes against the constitutional order and the democratic system". He also drew a historical parallelism, and referred that since they were "wickedly invented" in the framework of the constitutional reform of 1994, none of the 900 decrees issued since then were rejected by Congress.

He also pointed out that "the system of congressional control is very bad and does not work, because it requires the rejection of both Chambers, and secondly because there is no deadline".

In addition, in an interview with Radio 10 this morning, the lawyer did not rule out that the decision could lead to the possibility of initiating an impeachment trial against the President: "They have turned the institutional order upside down, if a student tells us that these matters can be legislated by DNU, we send him to study again", he ironized.

Presentaron la primera demanda judicial contra el decreto de necesidad y urgencia de Javier Milei

Pide que se declare la “nulidad absoluta e insanable” de la norma; lo plantearon Claudio Lozano y una asociación civil que suele cuestionar políticas del oficialismo porteño

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The first legal action against Javier Milei's decree of necessity and urgency has been filed.

Claudio Lozano and a civil association that usually questions the policies of the Buenos Aires government have filed the first lawsuit against Javier Milei's decree of necessity and urgency.

The decree of necessity and urgency announced last night by President Javier Milei has already had its first legal challenge. The Civil Association Observatorio del Derecho a la Ciudad (Observatory of the Right to the City) filed a lawsuit before the federal contentious-administrative courts questioning the regulation. The economist Claudio Lozano, former national deputy, also signed the lawsuit.

The plaintiffs ask for a declaration of "the unconstitutionality and absolute and irrevocable nullity of the Necessity and Urgency Decree No. 70/2023″.

Once the case was resolved, it was the turn of the Federal Administrative Court No. 2, headed by Judge Esteban Furnari, who was asked as a precautionary measure to order the suspension of the effects and the validity of the DNU.

The Asociación Civil Observatorio del Derecho a la Ciudad is an organization that promoted several legal actions against measures of the government of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta in matters of mobility, metrobus, urban planning, public space, health and environment.

The lawyer sponsoring the lawsuit is Jonatan Baldiviezo, who in his LinkedIn account appears as an advisor to the Buenos Aires Legislature and was a candidate for the left.

In his X account (formerly Twitter) he published today that the decree of necessity and urgency is "the end of democracy" and that Milei is "a traitor to the homeland".

"Milei, traitor to the homeland, does not remove privileges from 1% but the rights of 99% of the population", he said and continued: "It is the beginning of the end of Argentine democracy or it is the beginning of the end of Milei's government...", he affirmed. And he said: "It is our duty to defend democracy".

The lawyer said that the DNU is "looting with the pretension of legality".

The lawsuit states that "the decree violates the principles of division of powers, the bicameralism established in our constitutional regime, the democratic principles and functional correctness that inform the entire constitutional text."

"This DNU is not intended to address the conjunctural and transitory solution of an emergency situation in exceptional circumstances, but to establish a new social and economic course for the country on a permanent basis," says the text of the amparo.

It further argues that "the scope of this package" is equivalent to affirming that "the Executive Branch has arrogated to itself extraordinary powers and powers equivalent to exercising the sum of public power."

It points out that the decree violates the constitutional requirements of the DNU, foreseen to "contain decisions of a conjunctural nature" to "alleviate an alleged exceptional situation" and "not to have the character of permanent norms modifying laws of the National Congress". This is established in precedents of the Supreme Court of Justice.

In addition, it points out that the Congress can function. "It is not the case that the challenged decree responds to an impossibility of passing the law through the ordinary procedure provided for in the Constitution. This is evident and irrefutable, since the Congress is functioning regularly," states the 60-page lawsuit.

"In addition, we are facing a mega DNU that, due to its massive scope (83 laws), is incompatible with the exceptionality required by the Constitution", the text questions. And it points out: "This omnibus DNU or mega DNU does not address an exceptional circumstance that makes it impossible, due to its urgency, to be dealt with by Congress".

Rather, what is intended is "the radical and structural modification of the model of human development, of economic progress with social justice, of productivity of the national economy and of economic growth of the country without waiting for Congress to evaluate the proposal and the radical new course that is proposed".

"The National Constitution -the amparo affirms- does not authorize that the Decrees of Necessity and Urgency be used for this purpose whose power substantially corresponds to the Congress of the Nation."

The judicial brief wonders what is the urgency to repeal the gondola law, to allow soccer clubs to become corporations, to eliminate fines for non-compliant employers, to modify the land law, to privatize Arsat, to repeal the Rent Law, ratified by Congress two months ago, to repeal the law regulating transitory rent, among other initiatives.

The procedure for this type of lawsuit includes giving notice to the opposing party and the judge analyzing whether or not it is appropriate to issue a precautionary measure, such as the suspension of the effectiveness and effect of the decree until a ruling on the merits is issued.

This claim, once resolved by the judge of first instance, may be appealed before the Federal Administrative Chamber and then before the Supreme Court of Justice, which will have the last word.

Give me a little time, I will consult with my father who knows more about the subject. (He is a lawyer)