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The Argentine Congress approved on Tuesday the veto proposed by President Javier Milei to pension reform, which disadvantages retirees in obtaining better pensions.

The veto was approved by 153 votes in favour, 87 against and 8 abstentions with the complicity of members of the Radical Civic Union, a party that promoted this measure, while two other legislators from this force were absent from the vote.

The five UCR legislators met with Milei and changed their vote, so the veto on the reform that provides for a rise in retirement assets and a new formula of mobility was imposed.

Meanwhile, the Argentine Naval Prefecture (PNA) took action against demonstrators peacefully in front of the Legislative Palace to reject the Chamber of Deputies’ endorsement of the presidential veto.

According to the platform Page 12, a retiree claimed that they were “on the sidewalk and we started pushing the same police for the middle of the street. They wanted to keep pushing us further inside and I wanted to go out, to return to the sidewalk, and there from behind they put the spray (tear gas) 20 centimeters from my eyes and shot me”.

For her part, the current speaker of the assemblies of La Poderosa, Negra Albornoz, said that “it is a huge outrage that old people are being abused. Today they are fighting for miserable retirement and this Congress is turning its back on them”.

In the meantime, the Lower House did not get the two-thirds necessary to push through the bill, the Buenos Aires press union mobilized to repudiate the repression against the press together with the Association of Graphic Reporters of the Argentine Republic and to defend retirements together with the trade union, social and human rights movement.

With the slogan “Unity in the streets for rights”, the mobilizers also demanded decent wages from the workers, following the rejection of the pension reform initiative, which provided for a monthly retirement update formula combining the inflation rate and average wage variation plus an extraordinary adjustment of 8,1 percent to April holdings to offset monthly inflation of 20.6 percent in January.

The retirement mobility project was approved by the Senate on 22 August with 61 votes in favour, while Javier Milei vetoed the entire project on 2 September, on the assumption that the measure was ‘manifestly violating the legal framework in force”.

Pensioners were asking for an increase of 8.1 percent in retirement, in a context where Argentina has six million retirees, according to the Statistical Bulletin of Social Security, of which 64.4 percent charge minimum pension.

And Bodo, the ex-Landgrave? What does he have to offer compared to the Thuringian Landgravine? Well, he is considered the "Twitter King" and the state leader who looked at his cell phone the most in the local state parliament. Did he read it? 26.4 percent of Thuringians did not vote. That's the same as in Saxony (25.6 percent). Taking non-voters into account, the traffic light parties together received 7.5 percent (Saxony: 9.4 percent). And because after ten long years of socialism (ahem) under Ramelow, the alternatives had been completely exhausted, they simply voted for the self-proclaimed "alternative." Sounds logical. At least for my father (89), who can't find any clothes, household goods or specialist doctors in his small Thuringian town. For him, the "Wessi Ramelow" is to blame, and then I have to hear my father's favorite joke again: "An Ostrogoth hits a resident of the Western Roman Empire. With a spear in the heart." Almost 35 years after the collapse, nothing is forgiven and nothing is forgotten there!

The mood in the green heart of Germany can also be sensed in the following statement by the venerable hikers on the Rennsteig: "Since we became West, there are hardly any echoes in the mountains." In other words, people have long been speechless. If we ignore Berlin, its suburbs and small areas like Leipzig or the crazy "state capitals," Germany and the Middle East are a completely torn, neglected, devastated country whose inhabitants look back on their lives with shame and try to somehow get by. You have to see these towns and villages! And the disinformation agencies MDR, NDR and RBB put a lot of effort into their borderline idiotic magic. The rest of the opinion-making is "regulated" by the market (newspapers, magazines) anyway, which means that East Germans, according to a study from 2021, only buy large German national daily newspapers in homeopathic doses (Süddeutsche Zeitung 2.5 percent of total circulation, FAZ 3.4 percent). Which is not surprising if you can't get your hands on a copy in which the only things you can read about East Germany are keywords like "right-wing radicalism," "Stasi," "doping," "democratic deficit," "GDR mismanagement," and "unjust regime."

East Germans are not concerned with the AfD, they are concerned with a deep-seated frustration, a helplessness, a lack of perspective. Fear is not a good advisor either. After almost 35 years, most people in the East have understood that the West is alien and hostile to them, from the very beginning, but it rules! At the same time, people are ashamed of having been so naive in 1990, of having messed things up themselves by throwing the fatherland into the jaws of a monster. Shame and rebellion, that is East Germany. But what unites us with West Germany is the lack of a socialist alternative.