Argentine Presidency confirms resignation of Infrastructure Minister after 48 hours
Buenos Aires, January 27 (EFE).- After 48 hours of official silence, the Argentine Presidency reaffirmed this Saturday that the Minister of Infrastructure, Guillermo Ferraro, will resign from his post for “personal reasons” and the Secretariat Including sectors go to the class of the Ministry of Economy.
In an official statement on the social network
The confirmation comes two days after it was announced by the local press and a day after Argentina’s Chancellor Diana Mondino justified the merger between the portfolios by “cost cutting”.
“It is a matter of cost reduction. Argentina’s head of foreign affairs told the press, “We need coordination and the famous phrase ‘no money’ must be very clear in all cases.”
The infrastructure ministries were created by Meili to group the independent sectors of transport, public works and housing and telecommunications, but they will now go into the hands of Luis Caputo, the head of the Treasury portfolio.
At the time, Mondino denied knowing the reasons why the executive had requested Ferraro’s resignation and limited himself to saying that “it is worse not to speak”, although later, Caputo told Casa Confirmed this in a press conference at Rosada (headquarters of the government). Will embrace infrastructure sectors.
“Yes, I’m going to take over the infrastructure sector,” Caputo said at the Argentine government headquarters and left without answering direct questions about the reasons for Ferraro’s departure.
For its part, the official statement said this weekend that progress will be made with “the basic plan to merge” the portfolios, a measure that will “generate greater coherence in the economic policy of the national government” and optimize the current budget. Will do.
Of the 21 ministerial portfolios left by the government of Alberto Fernández (2019–2023), Meili reduced them to nine and will now have eight: Interior, Defence, Human Capital, Health, Economy, Justice, Foreign Relations and Security.
On an unofficial level, the Argentine press reported last Thursday that the President had requested Ferraro’s departure because he had allegedly leaked sensitive information from Cabinet meetings.
“I’m going to leave you without a penny, I’m going to melt you completely,” this phrase may have been said by Miley in response to provincial governors’ refusal to pressure their delegates to vote favorably. ‘Ubiquitous Law’.
Other journalistic versions insist that the bad relationship with Ferraro’s chief of staff Nicolas Posey and the president’s sister and adviser Karina Miley would be the real reason for his departure and the leak, just an excuse.
After 47 days, Ferraro was one of the persons with the most political life in the current cabinet, he was part of the staunch core of libertarianism and was in charge of the national coordination of the party’s monitoring of the elections that brought victory to the ultra-liberal economists. efe
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