National deputy of the Left Front, Myriam Bregman, stated today that the new Juvenile Penal Regime pushed by the official government and its allies seeks "to give more powers to the police so they can harass kids in the neighborhoods." "We are not the ones who link crime with poverty, but criminalization is effectively applied to the popular sectors and the children of the working class," she warned. In this regard, she questioned that "the 'no money' government has money for the criminal prosecution of the kids." Meanwhile, she seemed to critically address massismo by recalling that the government of Juan Domingo Perón, instead of lowering the age of criminal responsibility, raised it in the year 1954. "We say no to lowering the age of criminal responsibility. Whoever votes for it should be ashamed of what they are voting for. They will go down in history in the garbage dump," the head of the left-wing bloc and PTS figure shot out.
