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After the miracle of escaping unharmed from an assassination attempt, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will be supported this Friday by a crowd in the Plaza de Mayo, a vital nerve in Argentine politics.

With the full government and the presence of President

, the event is expected to be massive, and

"The president convened for this afternoon at the Casa Rosada representatives of the trade union, social, business, human rights sectors and different faiths to build a broad consensus against hate speech and violence," said Argentine government sources.

According to "La Nación",

The Casa Rosada overlooks the Plaza de Mayo, a wide esplanade in the center of Buenos Aires, in the historic center of the city.

Throughout the decades, the plaza has been the outlet for the emotions and political demands of Argentines, whether with

, with the announcement by the military dictatorship that they had just landed on the Islands Malvinas, or with

in the return of democracy.

Fernández decreed a holiday for this Friday

, which facilitated the transit through the city of those willing to participate in the demonstration.

Large columns of people advanced at midday in Argentina towards the Plaza de Mayo from different sectors of the metropolitan area of ​​the Argentine capital.

Among the groups that will mobilize is the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), the main Argentine trade union center, part of Peronism.

In a statement, the CGT expressed its repudiation of the "savage attack perpetrated",

for the climate of violence and left open the possibility of a general strike next week.

Fernández de Kirchner, twice president between 2007 and 2015, was pointed with a gun to her forehead on Thursday night, when she greeted a crowd that gathered in front of her apartment in the central Recoleta neighborhood to express their support.

The assailant, a 35-year-old Brazilian citizen, fired twice, but the bullet did not come out.

"He was preparing for this moment

," said Mario, a friend of

, the attacker.

Speaking to Argentine television, the man said that Sabag Montiel

The author of the failed assassination is being questioned by the Argentine police and justice.

The judge in charge of the case,

, the judge in charge of the case, took a statement from the former president at her home, accompanied by the prosecutor in the case,

.

What happened in Argentina had wide international repercussions.

The United States government joined the rejection of what happened:

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. We are with the Argentine government and people in rejecting violence and hatred."

Former President

, one of the first relevant leaders to strongly condemn the event, was challenged today by

, deputy of the coalition they share, Together for Change, to join the demonstration in person.

"How good and exemplary it would be, on a day like today, to see our former presidents together in a historic gesture to put a stop to violence," wrote Manes, a deputy for the Radical Civic Union (UCR).

Before the consultation of EL MUNDO

Macri's office declined to comment on the subject.

Fernández de Kirchner and Macri are co-protagonists of a political and personal enmity with no return.

The former president's office also did not confirm whether Macri's security was reinforced.

, the Minister of Security, is being strongly criticized from within Peronism for the obvious flaws in the custody of the vice president that facilitated the failed attack.

Fernández de Kirchner, 69, had returned in recent days to the position of overwhelmingly central figure in Argentine politics.

Last week, two federal prosecutors

for corruption and defrauding the state, which led to several days of demonstrations in front of her apartment in Buenos Aires by her supporters.

The attempted attack places her on an even higher pedestal in terms of devotion on the part of her followers.

The demonstrations of recent days, which included camping and people spending the night in the streets, led to a

, an autonomous federal entity, according to the Constitution, and the national government.

Although the police and justice have not yet announced the results of the investigation, on Thursday night President Fernández chained a series of conclusions and slipped responsibilities in his speech.

"We are facing an event that has an extreme institutional and human gravity.

. Argentina cannot lose another minute. There is no time. It is necessary to banish violence and hatred of political and media discourse and of our life in society".

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