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After the distinction of Prague Liberal Institute received this Monday the president Javier Milei, It was learned that a branch of the organization was unaware of the award that was given to the president. As this media learned, the controversy was sparked by an internal dispute within the same entity.
“There have been reports in the media that the Liberal Institute will present the 2024 Annual Award to Javier Milei. Is not true. This message is being spread without authorization from us by people who have not participated in the activities of the Liberal Institute for several years, do not have any position in the institute and do not have the right to speak on its behalf,” they said in a statement. published on the website of the Liberální Institute, later spread on social networks, days before Milei’s arrival in Prague.
“The director of the institute, the academic council, the director of research, the chief economist and other people who have really participated in the operation of the institute in recent years do not agree with Javier Milei’s award. The annual award for the year 2024 has already been awarded and was received by Alain Bertaud,” the statement highlighted.
Throughout the message, also spread by Martin Panek, who appears on the institute’s website as the current director of the organization, the organizers of the event were urged not to use the name of the Institute or the “logo and corporate identity”, to promote the meeting that finally took place this Monday at the Žofín Palace.
It is the same Panek who in the last few hours also used his social networks to cross the person who appears as the founder of the Institution, Jiri Schwarz, also rector of the Anglo-American University in Prague. Schwarz was one of those in charge of spreading the word that Milei was going to receive the award.
As LA NACION learned from official sources, the controversy responds to an internal one within the same organization and between its authorities.
“There is more than one liberal institute in Prague and, as always happens, some tend to be offshoots of the previous ones. One gave him the award and the other clarified that they did not,” summarized those close to the Government, aware of the European tour, in relation to the controversy unleashed in the last few hours.
In his speech this Monday, the Argentine president once again boasted of having made the “largest fiscal adjustment in the history of humanity” in six months of government and of having stabilized the economy.
At the Žofín Palace in Prague, Milei questioned as biased the training he received in the Economics program at the University of Buenos Aires and recounted how he converted to the Austrian School. According to him, in his experience, his “academic background” was very important because it is what guided “every action taken.”
In front of his Czech hosts, Milei insisted that he is the right person to change the fortunes of Argentina, a country that, according to him, “has two very clear economic problems: that it is not growing and that it has excessive inflation.” Milei stated: “So, it was clear that he needed a growth and money specialist. Well, people were not wrong, 56% chose the growth and money specialist, which is my case.”
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