He april 24 It appears marked in the official calendar of National Holidays 2023 as a non-working day, but: will it really be a holiday and what is commemorated?
As we said, in the official calendar of the Ministry of the Interior this date is a non-working daywhich means that it is not a national holiday and that it is the employer who has the power to determine whether or not to give their workers the day off.
Tolerance and respect among peoples
This is the Day of Action for Tolerance and Respect among Peoples, in which the Armenian Genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire is remembered, when almost a million and a half people died.
On the night of April 23 and the early morning of April 24, 1915, Armenian religious, intellectuals, professionals, and citizens were expelled from their homes and deported to later be assassinated. Despite the enormous magnitude of these crimes against humanity, Argentina is part of the twenty countries in the world that officially recognize this massacre as a “Genocide” against the people of Armenia, although Türkiye denies its existence.
the non-working day was sanctioned by law of Congress on December 13, 2006. Later, in 2011, a federal court ruling gave it judicial recognition.
May holidays: when is the next long weekend?
In May 2023 there will be two immovable national holidays and also a day declared a holiday for tourism purposes.
All 2023 holidays according to the official calendar of Argentina
The month starts with nothing less than a long weekend for the holiday of Monday May 1, International Workers’ Day. Since in 2023 this date falls on a Monday, that will be a three day weekend for those who regularly provide tasks from Monday to Friday.
The following holiday, according to the Official Calendar of the Ministry of the Interior of the NationIt will be on Thursday, May 25. It is the moment in which the Week of May is actually celebrated, or the 7 days that led to the May revolution.
These two dates are immovable national holidays throughout the national territory. But also, to create an XL long weekend, it was determined that the Friday May 26 is a holiday for tourist purposes. There will be four consecutive days of rest for people who normally work from Monday to Friday.
A holiday for tourism purposes is one of the three dates a year that, by Law No. 27,399, the National Executive Power can set each year as a date on which no work is done at the national level.
Generally, as they are days designed to promote tourism, spending and the national economy, they are associated with holidays to create long weekends, as in the case of May 26 this year.
The other two dates that will be holidays for tourist purposes in 2023 are Monday, June 19 and Friday, October 13. In all cases they are made up of long weekends.
Holiday of May 1: Labor Day
May holidays: why is Labor Day celebrated on May 1 in Argentina?
The holiday of May 1 is for the International Workers’ Day, declared as such by the UN and officially celebrated in 80 countries. It is a very important date in Argentina, which is generally the scene of massive union marches in different parts of the country.
The date was defined as May 1 in commemoration of the strikes for union struggle that occurred in the United States in 1886with which the establishment of the working day in 8 hours a day.
The date chosen for the mobilizations at that time was already symbolic because it recalled an important strike of 1867. Some 340,000 workers in different parts of the country participated in the 1886 mark. The conflict with the authorities continued in the following days, and in a confrontation with the police, four people died after incidents at the McCormick Harvester machinery factory in Chicago.
That is the fact chosen in 1889 at the Socialist Workers’ Congress of the Second International to honor on International Workers’ Day the “Chicago Martyrs”.
Holiday of May 25
As is well known, the holiday of May 25 recalls the entire week that ended on that date in the May revolution and the formation of the first national government of Argentina, the First meeting.
May Holidays: what is celebrated on May 25 in Argentina
Seeing the weakness of Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros after the capture of the King of Spain by Napoleon Bonaparte, the Creoles decided to act to disregard the viceroy’s authority and declare an autonomous government. They met in the building that is now the Cabildo de Buenos Aires, while in the Plaza de Mayo women, children, slaves and the poor awaited the news of the formation of an independent country.
Shortly after it was finally announced that a new government junta had been formed, chaired by Cornelio Saavedra, who declared that he was ruling in the name of Fernando VII, while the royalists and the former viceroy fled to Uruguay.
The First Government Junta was the beginning that six years later led to Argentina being able to declare its independence from the Spanish Crown and become a republic.
