Javier Milei meets this Tuesday with Federico Sturzenegger in the Pink House. The President will seek to define what role the former president of the Central Bank will have in the Cabinet.
Milei announced in mid-May that once the Base Law was approved, Sturzenegger was going to join the Government to advance a deeper reform of the State and the deregulation of the economy. On that occasion he mentioned the possibility of him being a minister, but the idea dissipated as time went by.
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What did begin at that moment was the bidding between the Executive and the creator of the megadecree. “The designation of Sturzenegger She is stuck because she still has to accept what we want to give her.“, he expressed to TN an important official more than 10 days ago.
The delay in the disembarkation of the current presidential advisor is due to the lack of definition in the structure and attributions what he will have once he is part of the cabinet. The Government wants it to have direct powers in the modernization of the state and deregulation of the economy, but they do not want to accumulate power in other areas.
At first they offered him the Secretariats of Transformation of the State and Public Function and Simplification of the State, which today are under the orbit of the Chief of Staff, chaired by Guillermo Francos.
What they denied him was Secretary of State Companies and Companies, headed by Mauricio González Botto and who in the coming days will be in charge of Diego Chaherthe current public media controller who was in charge of the closure of Telam. As far as he could know TNMilei will hand over the management of public companies to Luis Caputo.
Federico Sturzenegger could be a minister if the Bases Law comes out, Javier Milei anticipated. (Photo: REUTERS/Matias Baglietto).
The Executive’s small table seeks that the author of DNU 70/2023 execute a State Secretariat with functions similar to the Ministry of Modernization which Andrés Ibarra led. Furthermore, they hope that debut in the cabinet with a bill that proposes eliminating more than one hundred regulations.
Milei announced that the reform of the State – which Sturzengger will carry out – It will be articulated with artificial intelligence to accelerate administrative processes. The president confirmed to TN which was one of the topics of conversation with the CEOs of Google, Sundar Pichai, and Open AI, Sam Altman.
Government wants to move forward with the elimination of other State agencies and agencies. It also aims to repeal administrative powers for economic procedures. The same applies to different national programs.
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While negotiating his arrival in the cabinet, Sturzenegger called to dismantle “Argentina’s Bermuda triangle”whose vertices are “the business corporation, the union corporation and the Peronist Party, with their different names and different skins.”
To deactivate this “triangle,” Sturzenegger urged “disarm the power of agents blocking change” and identified two factors: “For the business corporation it is competition and for the union, it is the savings banks,” while ensuring that abroad “they do not understand how in Argentina unionism takes between 3% and 3.5 % of formal salaries”.
“Our generation is responsible for the debacle and “The electorate said ‘enough’: that was the mandate that Milei received,” considered the former president of the Central Bank, when speaking at the closing of the first day of the Forum “Rebirth of freedom in Argentina and the world”, organized by the Freedom and Progress Foundation, at the Hilton Hotel, of the City of Buenos Aires.
