Friday 25 May:
During the morning, on a day dull and rainy, lobbyists met willing to reject the resignations, saying that the Board had no authority to decline to exercise a power that the people had given. But
groups Plaza (now Plaza de Mayo) went into action and before the council reiterated demands and threats. One delegation Square demanded immediate solutions and met in front of the Cabildo banging their doors and demanding to know what it is. The assembled crowd realized that most did not support the troops and decided to receive the delegation demanding that the request be made in writing. Hours later, the council produced a document called the Petition of the People, in which the neighbors, commanders and officers "for the people, resumed sovereignty delegated to the council and demanded that they be made known that they had formed a Board of Governors. In addition, he was preparing to send an expedition of 500 men to assist the inland provinces.
The Chapter went to the balcony to submit directly to the ratification of the people's request. But, given the late hour and the weather, the number of people in the square had declined, which Lewis claimed to ridicule the claim of the council to speak on behalf of the people. Saavedra replied forcefully, demanding
"which touched the hood of the City, and if lack of clapper made no use of the bell, which is sent to touch the large and that it would open the barracks, in which case the city will suffer which until then had tried to avoid. " "
Intimidated by popular pressure, the City Council accepted the request.
the afternoon, from the balcony of the Cabildo, was proclaimed the Provisional Governing Junta or Primera Junta, composed as follows:
President Cornelio Saavedra (Commander of patricians)
Secretaries Dr. Juan José
Step (lawyer)
Dr Mariano Moreno (lawyer)
Members
Dr. Manuel Alberti (priest)
Miguel de Azcuenaga (military)
Dr. Manuel Belgrano (lawyer)
Dr. Juan José Castelli (lawyer)
Domingo Matheu (merchant)
Juan Larrea (merchant)
He then spoke to the crowd Saavedra gathered in the rain and then moved to the Fort, between bursts of artillery and ringing of bells. From Wikipedia
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