Following the announcement of its closure, the PJ wants all the assets and documents of the Juan Domingo Perón Institute transferred to it.

After the Milei administration announced the dissolution of the Juan Domingo Perón National Institute, the Justicialist Party, headed by Cristina Kirchner, proposed taking over the organization and all its assets. It also noted that the closure of these organizations " masks an ideological persecution" of Peronism.

The measure had been announced by spokesperson Manuel Adorni on May 7, the same day the PJ commemorated Eva Perón's birthday. This coincidence sparked an initial protest from some Peronist figures.

At the time, Javier Milei 's spokesperson justified the decision by stating that "the investigation into the former president" is being conducted elsewhere, "free of state restrictions," adding that the end of its existence would free the state from "an avoidable budgetary burden that provided no differential value."

Two weeks after that official announcement, the Minister of Deregulation and Transformation of the State, Federico Sturzenegger , came out to confirm the closure of the Juan Domingo Perón Institute - dedicated to historical research. The official included the institute among "the organizations dedicated to exalting historical figures" that were dissolved as of decrees 345 and 346 of 2025, in a series of messages he published this Thursday morning on his X account.

THE JUSTICIALIST PARTY AND THE DEFENSE OF HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL HERITAGE

Milei's government ordered the dissolution of the "Juan Domingo Perón National Institute for Historical, Social and Political Studies and Research" and the "National Permanent Commission in Tribute to…" pic.twitter.com/n7zIPc4srZ

— Justicialist Party (@p_justicialista) May 22, 2025

Both regulations bear the signatures of the President; the Chief of Staff, Guillermo Francos; and the Minister of Human Capital, Sandra Pettovello.

Hours after Sturzenegger's tweets, the PJ (Party of the People's Party) issued a statement expressing its condemnation of the closure. In that statement, they asserted that the institution "guards a documentary, bibliographic, archival, and museographic collection of invaluable historical value."

"The closure of these organizations, carried out in a discretionary and abrupt manner , masks an ideological persecution of any institution, person, or entity linked to Justicialism and the Peronist movement," they wrote on the same social network.

In the post, they also shared the letter they sent to Francos expressing their disagreement with the decision and their request to "preserve this cultural legacy and prevent its dispersion or loss." They also requested that "the necessary means be taken to transfer all the assets, objects, and documents that comprise the Institute's entire collection" to Francos.

In the text they sent to the Prime Minister, which was signed by the General Secretary of the Partido Popular (PJ), Teresa García, they explained that the launch of their initiative is based on "the signing of an agreement with the National Government, through the State Property Administration Agency (AABE) and the Ministry of Human Capital, to assume management of the Institute and its assets."

"This means that the National Council, as the highest party body, assumes all operating and maintenance costs , without financial support from the State, guaranteeing the same quality of management; and it is committed to safeguarding, preserving, and ensuring public access in order to protect the Institute's historical collection and what it represents for the Argentine Nation," they concluded their request to the national government.