The Chief of Staff, Nicolás Posse, did not speak in public until last week when he went to the Senate to give the report on the government’s management. A week later, rumors of his departure grow. For what is this? Surely it is not because of the closed defense that he tried of the first five months of management in which he was in charge, for example, of describing neighborhood organizations as “slavery systems.” The versions put him outside because of the Executive’s own gear, in which his mistakes stand out more, whether at Luna Park or the placement of Menem’s bust.
“Posse’s situation is the same as that of the entire cabinet. When one manages milestones, our first management milestone would end with the outcome of the Base Law. The Bases Law may or may not turn out well,” said Milei in her last television interview. The rumors give a replacement to one of those who was in the wrong, Francos; to the “hawk” of milleism the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich; and a representative of the new alliance with the PRO, deputy Diego Santilli.
Nor should we forget the anger that was left hanging after President Milei signed his own 12 percent wage increase in late February, and then blamed Posse and then-Labor Secretary Omar Yasín, who was the scapegoat for close the controversy. Whom the president fired live during a radio program in which they questioned the increase.
Until last week his voice was unknown. In the Senate he gave eight hours of public presentation to answer questions about the first months of his administration, where he defended the cut of the FONID, the RIGI proposal, the adjustments in health, education and public works; and he attacked “piqueteros” and social organizations, in addition to anticipating that they will debate the reduction of imputability.
If the rumors come to fruition, the head of state would be losing another official, but not just anyone but one of his greatest confidence, the one behind his sister Karina. It was Posse who accompanied the decisions of the DNU and the imposed “Bases Law”, with the ideas of advisor Federico Sturzenegger. He was in charge of the negotiations with the governors, although they ended in the failure of Deputies during the summer.
His name was claimed by the Deputies when the long debate hearings were held for the opinion of the first version of the Omnibus Law. “The Chief of Staff is responsible for the DNU. He must present and defend it,” the Treasury Attorney, Rodolfo Barra, had launched an accusation against him. The DNU is still alive, due to the paralysis of the Bicameral commission in the lower house, but Barra had anticipated that its fate could mark that of the chief of ministers: “Congress can slap the President, removing the chief of staff who is the President’s man for this issue.
The civil engineer graduated from the Technological Institute of Buenos Aires (ITBA) is one of Milei’s bishops since the presidential candidacy seemed like a hopeless attempt; within a closed team shared by Karina and the advisor Santiago Caputo. He has known Milei since the time they both had at Corporación América, Eduardo Eunerkián’s company, where Nicolás became in charge of Duty Free at airports. He will have to wait for what is his next destiny.
