The first quarter of the government of Javier Milei It had ups and downs. There were officials who gained notoriety in a short time due to controversies, such as Foreign Minister Diana Mondino. Others who are immovable, such as the Minister of Human Capital, Sandra Pettovello. And there are also those who plummeted shortly after taking office.
This list is extensive and has cases for all tastes. The last dismissal was that of the Secretary of Labor, Omar Yasin who was left out of the Government in the midst of the controversy over the president’s salary increase. Milei put him on television. The most scandalous case was that of Osvaldo Giordano as executive director of Anses. His departure was tied to the president’s fury over the defeat in the Chamber of Deputies when the Omnibus Law was discussed, since among those who voted against was Giordano’s wife, who is a representative for Córdoba. Milei counted her among her allies and it came out badly for her.
A month later, Giordano became the superstar of the ruling party for having uncovered the insurance case hired by the administration of Alberto Fernández. In other words, he did more for Milei from the outside than from the inside.
Due to that same outburst of anger from Milei that made Giordano fly, he was also left out of the Government Flavia Royón, the former Secretary of Energy who had become the Undersecretary of Mining. That departure made it clear that her appointment had been part of an agreement – unfulfilled – with the governor of Salta Gustavo Sáenz, who did not support the Omnibus Law.
Another dismissal surrounded by scandal was that of Guillermo Ferraro, the former Minister of Infrastructure who ended up clashing with the Chief of Staff, Nicolás Posse, due to differences in the ways of carrying out management. It was a decision that surprised because of how untimely it was.
Posse had even beaten him to the appointment of authorities in areas that depended on Ferraro, such as, for example, AySA, where the candidate Ferraro was evaluating was Pablo Walter, a PRO leader. linked to Patricia Bullrich, and Marcelo Papandrea ended up remaining, by Posse’s decision. However, last week Papandrea was also fired, at the same time as other AySA directors who reported to Malena Galmarini and Sergio Massa and still remained in the company. Coincidences.
The first round of layoffs was linked to the communications area, far away and long ago, during the first weeks of Milei’s government. First was Eduardo Roust, who had assumed the role of Media Secretary, but was never made official in the position. In his place had been his second, Belén Stettler, but before the end of the year he also decided to step aside and it was the turn of journalist Eduardo Serenelini, who gets along like a cat and a dog with spokesperson Manuel Adorni.
The latest news in terms of landslides is that of Ramiro Marrathe financial advisor, influencer and Buenos Aires legislator who was removed from his duties as head of block in the Buenos Aires Legislature and at the close of this edition was evaluating what decision to make regarding his membership in La Libertad Avanza.
Sebastian Garcia de Luca He was not kicked out, but decided to abandon ship. He had been, until two weeks ago, the Secretary of Federal Articulation, a role that allowed him to manage the policy of the Ministry of Security. Due to the fights with the governors and the PRO’s own internal fights, De Luca – Bullrich’s former campaign manager in the province of Buenos Aires – decided to leave the administration, partly because he was in an uncomfortable position with his true political reference. the governor of Entre Ríos, Rogelio Frigerio, who had had critical words against the President that he later moderated.
The case of greatest destitution was that of the superintendent of Health Services, Enrique Rodríguez Chiantore, who on Thursday, January 25, got up to go to work and found the publication in the Official Gazette that said that he had been terminated from his duties. Angry, he spent the next day giving interviews to tell what had been done to him. He lasted 40 days in office.
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