“The president maintains it with great conviction,” he declared. Guillermo Francos in a streaming interview on the Infobae portal referring to his replacement Manuel Adorni. The former Chief of Staff fired at Casa Rosada for the scandals carried out by the current coordinator of ministers and the president’s decision Javier Milei to keep the questioned official in his position. “He thinks that everything starts from an operation and supports someone who has confidence,” Francos highlighted and detailed: “It distances a little the vision of all the things that the national government has advanced in reforming the populist and ossified structure of the Argentine State. I hope it ends quickly, it would be good for it to be clarified and presented for declaration.”
In this way, the former Chief of Staff once again distanced himself from the scandal involving his former colleague Manuel Adorni and publicly questioned the way the libertarian administration handled the political crisis derived from complaints about alleged financial inconsistencies, official trips and suspicions about possible bonuses. The former official considered that the conflict around Adorni “had to have ended much sooner” and warned that the permanence of the issue on the public agenda ends up affecting Javier Milei politically.
Francos also directly addressed allegations about Adorni’s assets and publicly backed calls for the current Chief of Staff to submit and update his affidavit. “When an official enters the Government he presents his sworn statement; when he leaves the Government he presents another one and in the middle he has to do it annually,” he explained, who insisted that the case should have been resolved quickly to avoid political wear and tear.
One of the most sensitive moments of the interview occurred when Francos was consulted about the versions of alleged bonuses within the national government. There he responded with a categorical phrase that quickly became one of the political titles of the day: “As far as I know, there are no bonuses in the Government. I never received a bonus as Chief of Staff.” He then added that throughout his administration he received “the salary paid by the National State,” which he detailed was around three million pesos per month.
Francos also denied knowing about irregular maneuvers or parallel funds destined to pay officials. “I don’t know that anyone receives a bonus nor where funds for that could come from,” he said. And he added another significant phrase: “Unless they were irregular funds. I am totally unaware of the subject.” The statements went down poorly in LLA and were interpreted politically as an attempt to detach themselves from the ruling party.
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