The relationship between the presidential candidate Javier MIlei and the former president of the Central Bank, Federico Sturzenegger, was created in 2017. At that time, the libertarian was just beginning to appear as a media figure. “Milei celebrated Sturzenegger in fan mode“says a former official who was part of the BCRA team.
The now favorite in the polls had him as a reference, and so much praise paid off. “Invite him to lunch“, Sturzenegger gave the order to his team. The food was given in the BCRA offices, and the menu was some gourmet sandwiches from a bar near the bank.
“Sturzenegger’s lunches were very economical. In fact, he never made a budget for that area for directors who had meetings outside, and they had to pay out of pocket the expense,” says the official consulted by NOTICIAS. “That gesture of austerity“I think it was a point of harmony with Milei,” he adds.
With few friends, very technical and not very political, the former president of the Central himself became friends with Milei, then a “weirdo” in economics and politics. That relationship was sustained over time, and today it is the libertarian who calls for him to take charge of the BCRA again in case of winning the elections.
Sturzenegger has not made a decision. And he highlights that he advised Patricia Bullrichwho for some time had called him to contribute some guidelines. Without being part of his economic team. In this sense, Milei’s offer is much more concrete, and the unconditional support, they say, is close to the libertarian.
“In reference to statements made by Carlos Pagni yesterday, I see the need to make a clarification. It is true that I have prepared a work on deregulation of the economybut said work has been done not for Javier Milei but for @PatoBullrich. I open a short thread,” Sturzenegger wrote on X (ex Twitter).
“A year ago we agreed with @PatoBullrich carry out a review of Argentine legislation in search of obstacles to competition, regulatory excesses, economic privileges and opacity in public spending. “It would address areas complementary to the work their other teams were doing,” he continued.
“This legislative review has been finalized and has already been discussed with the technical teams of @PatoBullrich. Last week, when he anointed himself to @CarlosMelconian as an economic reference, the work was transferred in its entirety to that team,” he concluded.
And finally he referred to libertarian: “With Javier Milei I have a relationship of mutual respect Many years ago. As I have already said, I think that his emergence into politics opened the possibility of debating things that we knew were wrong but that no one wanted to address. Moved the axis of the discussionin my opinion, for the good of all,” he concluded.
Sturzenegger would today be Milei’s “plan A” for the Central Bank that he had promised to blow up (a new policy that contradicts one of his campaign axes along with dollarization, also currently under internal debate). But if the former BCRA rejects the offer, the name of Sunday Cavallothe former economy minister of Carlos Menem and Fernando De la Rúa.
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