The Kirchner mayor sought to approve a budget that would increase municipal rates and public spending.
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Violent Kirchner militants physically assaulted opposition councilors in the Villa Gesell Deliberative Council after they voted against the 2026 municipal budget promoted by the management of Peronist mayor Gustavo Barrera.
The episode occurred inside the venue and continued outside, in an act of political violence that generated an immediate repudiation of opposition sectors.
Councilwoman Clarisa Armando was one of the main victims of the attacks. As he said, the climate of tension was previously promoted: “The discussion took place in a context of a lot of violence called by the mayor and the officials and by the truckers' union.” After the negative vote, the attacks began immediately.
“First inside the venue and then when we had to leave. I had to go out to accompany one of the councilors who broke down in the ambulance, they physically attacked us, not only us, but the health personnel who had been present to assist the councilwoman,” she said
.
Armando identified the aggressors as “Kirchnerist militants who represent the municipal union, publicly convened by officials”, and pointed directly against the political model of the local government: “This is precisely the Kirchnerist model, that the results are as they want or are by force”.
In addition, he reported threats after the events: “There were threats. In Villa Gesell we live 45,000 inhabitants, who all know each other, who the next day we go out on the street and they know where we live, we meet in the supermarket, in the butcher shop
”.
The councilwoman also questioned the role of the authorities of the deliberative body during the incidents: “The president of the Council never asked for order, nor did she ask for the intervention of the Secretariat of Security or the Police. The small police force that was present had been requested by us. They opened all the doors, they let them in, they let us go out without protection. They really freed up for this to happen
.” The attack.
The rejection of the budget triggered the conflict. According to Armando, the project promoted by the ruling party “increased municipal rates to 80%, increased public spending, created new secretariats and the gas tax”, as opposed to a national context of adjustment
of public spending.
Councilman Luis Vivas was also attacked during the riots. After the events, the opposition councilors filed a police report and stayed inside the building for several hours while a security operation was being deployed
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“All the councilors are going to go to the prosecutor's office to file the complaint and ask for protection from the courts,” Armando said.
From La Libertad Avanza, they repudiated what happened and described the episode as an “unacceptable institutional gravity”. In a statement, they said that “people linked to the mayor broke in with patoteric attitudes, rebuking and assaulting the councilors,” who had to be assisted and removed “in an ambulance and patrol car.”
The space concluded that “this was not an isolated event, but rather another expression of a model that, when questioned, responds with squeezes rather than arguments”, on a day that once again revealed the level of violence on the part of Kirchnerism.
