*President Milei presents 2025 budget to the Congress.
*Social movements mark 48th anniversary of the Night of the Pencils.
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*Social movements mark 48th anniversary of the Night of the Pencils.
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00:00Studies revealed on Monday that 57.3% of Argentinians disapprove of the administration of President Javier Milley.
00:07The survey conducted by Suban Cordova y Asociados showed that 43% of respondents said the head of state had not achieved a positive change in the country during his nine months in office.
00:19On the other hand, it indicated that more than 55% believed the country was going in the wrong direction,
00:26while 57.5% affirmed that the situation in Argentina would be the same or worse in one year's time.
00:33The polls also underlined that Argentinians currently consider that all promises made by Javier Milley were a lie
00:40and that distrust of his administration was spreading throughout the country.
00:44The survey comes out right after President Javier Milley submitted on Sunday the 2025 budget outlining policy priorities to Congress.
00:57In a non-precedented move, Milley personally presented the budget to Congress,
01:02denouncing Argentina's record of macroeconomic mismanagement and vowing to veto anything that compromised fiscal discipline.
01:09Milley's harsh austerity package has inflicted deep economic pain on Argentina, with nearly 60% of Argentines now living in poverty.
01:18Milley managed to balance the budget largely by cutting financial transfers to the provinces,
01:24halting public works projects, eliminating energy and transport subsidies,
01:28and refusing to raise salaries and pensions in the face of the country's sky-high inflation.
01:35In Argentina, social movements and human rights organizations called for a mobilization on the occasion of the 48th anniversary of the Knight of the Pencils.
01:46The mobilization for the Knight of the Pencils has been called for 2pm local time in the main cities of the country.
01:52The demonstrators are expected to raise a claim against the administration of Javier Milley for its denialist policy
01:59and its links with the military sectors that were part of the dictatorship.
02:03The purpose of the annual mobilization is to remember the students who were kidnapped, tortured,
02:09and murdered by members of the police of the province of Buenos Aires during the dictatorship on September 16, 1976.