Organizers of the first demonstration against the government of Argentina’s new president, Javier Millay, will have to cover the costs associated with the mobilization of security forces, the presidency’s spokesman said on Friday.

The cost to mobilize units from four agencies – federal police, municipal police, airport security and gendarmerie – is estimated at 60 million pesos, or about $73,000.

“This bill will be sent to the social movements” who “are asked to take responsibility for the costs, which the citizens will not bear,” added spokesman Manuel Adorni.

The government had already announced since last week that the costs would be borne by the organizers of the demonstrations.

A few days after the inauguration of the far-right, ultra-liberal president, thousands of people demonstrated in downtown Buenos Aires, responding to the call of left-wing organizations, protesting the government’s austerity program. Protesters were surrounded by heavy police forces, which organizers criticized. “This reminds me of the dictatorship,” commented Eduardo Beliboni, head of the Polo Obrero organization.

The police force was overseen in person by the president and the security minister, Patricia Bullrich, from the headquarters of the federal police. “The force that will be used will be the minimum possible, but proportional to the resistance,” Bullrich said, announcing that “the bill will be sent to the responsible organizations or individuals” because “the state will not pay for the use of security forces.”

In Argentina, and especially in Buenos Aires, hundreds of demonstrations take place every year during which central roads are blocked.