The ministers who are members of the cabinet of the new president of Argentina, Javier Mileiwere sworn in this Sunday in an act without access to the media or official broadcast.
The inauguration of the new members of the ultraliberal Executive It took place in the White Room of the Casa Rosada (seat of Government) without either the press or the citizens having access to the event through the official television signal, whose broadcasters did not indicate that a possible technical failure had occurred.
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“The President of the Argentine Republic Javier Milei signed the decree appointing ministers. This decree reduces the number of existing ministries to 9″, published Milei on his official account on the social network X.
A photo spread on social networks with Milei In the center, seated and surrounded by his small cabinet, he shows the nine ministers who were sworn in this Sunday: Luis Caputo (Economy), Guillermo Ferraro (Infrastructure), Mariano Cúneo Libarona (Justice), Sandra Pettovello (Human Capital), Patricia Bullrich (Security), Luis Petri (Defense), Diana Mondino (Chancellery), Gullermo Francos (Interior) and Mario Russo (Health).
The new chief of staff is Nicolás Possea man very close to Mileiwhom he met when they both worked at the private company Corporación América.
Furthermore, a Javier Milei Visibly moved, he took an oath to his inseparable sister, Karinawhom he calls ‘The Boss’ and who She will be the general secretary of the Presidency.
For Karina Milei to access this position, it was necessary to repeal a decree issued in 2018 by the then president of Argentina Mauricio Macri (2015-2019), which prohibited nepotism.
In the formation of his cabinet, Milei He has built bridges to other political forces to find allies for his coalition, the far-right Freedom Advanceswhich has very few deputies and senators.
So libertarians, Peronists, followers of the former president Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) and Radical Civic Union (UCR) They have a place in the new cabinet, including the coalition’s presidential formula Together for Change (center-right) in the last elections, the current former presidential candidate Patricia Bullrich and the current ex-aspirant for the vice presidency Luis Petri.
The reduced cabinet also delivers on a campaign promise to reduce public spending.
“Outside!” was the cry that went viral months before the election of Javier Milei. In a video published on the social network TikTok, the leader of Freedom Advances energetically removing labels with the names of a dozen ministries of the Government of Alberto Fernández (2019-2023) from a blackboard.
The newly appointed ministers had been working for weeks in their respective areasespecially Foreign Minister Mondino, who even traveled to Brasilia to meet with her counterpart from the government of Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, Mauro Vieira, while the already Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, met in the United States with representatives of the US Treasury and of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
