Argentina’s Javier Milei vetoes bills that would have raised pensions and disability benefits

Protesters outside Argentina's National Congress during a demonstration demanding higher minimum pensions, in Buenos Aires on 30 July. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, has vetoed three bills that would have increased pensions and disability benefits, prompting outrage from advocacy groups and the lawmakers who had approved the measures.

The self-styled anarcho-capitalist claimed the bills would “break the government’s fiscal balance” and insisted there was “no money” to fund the measures, which the National Congress had approved in early July.