The political analyst Jorge Asis broke into the public agenda again with statements in which he maintained that the minister Sandra Pettovello could become the replacement of Manuel Adorni, in the midst of the scandal surrounding the official. On his
Asís’ statements about Adorni and his replacement, by the head of the Ministry of Human Capital, are part of the context of the scandal that has engulfed the coordinator of ministers since March, when investigations into his assets, properties and level of spending began to be disseminated. The official himself, in various public interventions and especially in a recent television interview, admitted inconsistencies in his sworn statements and acknowledged that he had maintained undeclared savings for years.
In a report with José del Río for LN+, the main spokesperson for the Presidency acknowledged: “We save in the black like all Argentines,” and added: “The way to escape from the old policy was to have savings in the black.” He later confirmed that he failed to declare around $500,000. Adorni explained that these funds came from his private activity and investments in cryptocurrencies, detailing that he had invested nearly 200,000 dollars and obtained profits of about 300,000, and assured that he had already started a tax regularization process.
Manuel Adorni’s interview on the Mesa Chica television series did not close any scandal. On the contrary, it was opening a new one, more serious than the previous one, because this time the contradictions came from the Chief of Staff’s own mouth. Hours after the report, various voices from the most varied political spaces agreed that Adorni cannot continue with his position in Casa Rosada.
Senator Alejandra Vigo and deputies Ignacio García Aresca, Juan Schiaretti, Carlos Gutiérrez, Alejandra Torres, Juan Brügge and Carolina Basualdo signed a statement without euphemisms: “Manuel Adorni cannot continue being Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers. The national government cannot continue supporting the lie for even one more day. Adorni lied to the Argentine people and lied before the National Congress.” The text concludes with “Enough of covering up and endorsing lies” that sounds like a political epitaph.
Vice President Victoria Villarruel defined Adorni’s actions and his explanations as “a shame”, and went even further: she publicly reminded him that Article 101 of the Constitution obliges the Chief of Staff to appear before Congress at least once a month, an obligation that Adorni has not fulfilled since November 2025. Villarruel called a Parliamentary Labor meeting to demand his presence in June, in open contradiction with Adorni’s own announcement, who said he would go to the Senate only in July.
From the PRO, the president of the block in the Senate, Martín Goerling Lara, maintained that “Adorni never came to be held accountable” and demanded that the presentation take place during June. Senator Patricia Bullrich, who had requested that Adorni present the sworn statement “immediately”, received the news with a qualification that was not benevolent either: she called what happened “an ethical omission”, a phrase that in the political code is equivalent to saying that the official lied without actually uttering that word.
In the Chamber of Deputies, different opposition blocks requested the president of the body, Martín Menem, to call a special session for June 23 at 2 p.m., with the aim of debating interpellation projects and a motion of censure against the coordinating minister. The note was signed by Germán Martínez, from Unión por la Patria; Esteban Paulón and Pablo Juliano, from United Provinces; Carlos Gutierrez; Marcela Pagano; and the deputies of the Left Front Nicolás del Caño and Romina del Plá.
Currently, hours after his clarifications in front of the camera, only Javier Milei, the general secretary of the Presidency, Karina Milei and the most closed core of Karinism support Adorni without fissures. The rest request, with varying degrees of urgency, the appointment of a replacement. In that strategy, the “Turk” Asís put the name of Sandra Pettovello in the box.
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