Milei calls his first cabinet meeting after the presidential inauguration

The president of Argentina, Javier Mileicalled this Monday for the first time his ministers for a meeting at the Pink House (seat of the Executive) to begin the work of the new Government.

The new head of state, who is still housed in Hotel Libertador due to the preparations being carried out in Quinta de Olivos (presidential residence), he went to the Government Headquarters, where he arrived at around 8:20 am (11:20 am GMT).

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This Monday is the first meeting of the cabinet after the respective oaths of office and before each minister assumes the affairs of their portfolio.

The leader of Advances of Freedom (far right) fulfilled his electoral promise to reduce ministries, in the public spending reduction lineand left the 18 existing until yesterday at just 9, according to the DNU (decree of necessity and urgency) signed this Sunday.

The ministers who make up his cabinet are Luis Caputo (Economy), Guillermo Ferraro (Infrastructure), Mariano Cúneo Libarona (Justice), Sandra Pettovello (Human capital), Patricia Bullrich (Security), Luis Petri (Defense), Diana Mondino (Chancellery), Guilherme Franco (In and Mario Russo (Health).

Without a doubt, the most sensitive portfolio will be the Economy. For this Tuesday, as announced today by the presidential spokesperson, Manuel AdorniCaputo will announce the Milei Executive’s first economic measures.

The chief of staff is Nicolas Possea very close man Mileiwhom he met when they both worked at the private company Corporación América.

What is more, Milei appointed his sister and main advisor, Karina Mileiwhich he nicknames ‘The boss‘, as secretary general of the Presidency.

To do this, it had to revoke a decree issued in 2018 by the then president of Argentina Mauricio Macri (2015-2019), which prohibited nepotism.

When forming his cabinet, Milei built bridges with other political forces to find allies for his coalition, the far-right La Libertad Avanza, which has very few deputies and senators.

So, libertarians, Peronists, followers of the former president Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) and Radical Civic Union (UCR) have a place in the new cabinet, including the coalition’s presidential formula Together for Change (center-right) in the last elections, former presidential candidate Patricia Bullrich and former vice-presidential candidate Luis Petri.

The president of Argentina, Javier Mileiwas sworn in this Sunday as the new head of state of the South American country after winning the elections second round of elections celebrated the past November 19 to the official candidate, the former Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa.

In his speech to citizens, the president insisted on his recipe for “adjustment”to solve the country’s macroeconomic problems, which reaches almost 150% annual inflation, 40% poverty, an exchange rate difference of 150% between the official rate and the parallel (or ‘blue’) rate, impoverished wages and shortage of foreign exchange reserves.

Source: Elcomercio

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