People took to the streets of Buenos Aires after President Javier Milei announced he would block plans to raise pensions in line with Argentina’s triple-digit inflation rates.

Police used pepper spray on demonstrators and hit them with batons during violent clashes.

The president announced his plans to veto the reforms tabled by the opposition-controlled Congress in a statement posted by his office on X, formerly Twitter.

The statement claimed the bill’s “only objective was to destroy the government’s economic program.”