Javier Milei arrived in Rome
with his focus on Buenos Aires.
In the last few hours he made a drastic decision.
Although he no longer seems angry and those around him say that he "cooled down," far from having repented by whitewashing his discomfort with the governors and deputies who respond to them, he is convinced that
what happened around the omnibus law cannot "leave him pass”
and that forces him to reconfigure his political agreements and, consequently, to redesign his Cabinet.
For this reason,
he supported the statements of Patricia Bullrich, who maintained that "you cannot be at the mass and the procession at the same time"
, in clear relation to the Executive officials who respond to governors whose deputies voted articles against their project.
The head of state, who landed in Italy at 10:28 a.m. in Argentina (2:28 p.m. local time) this Friday to meet with his counterpart Sergio Mattarella, the prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, and hold his first audience with Pope Francis,
entrusted them to his intimates that “the decision has already been made”
and that, once he returns to Buenos Aires next Tuesday, he plans to make changes in the Executive: “
I hope they leave on their own.
If they don't leave, I'll cut them down,” he said, as Clarín reconstructed from unobjectionable sources
in the official delegation.
“The changes are already underway, but they are not made from one moment to the next,” he concluded before a trusted interlocutor who asked him about Bullrich's statements, which reinstated the idea that there may be retaliation against officials of the Executive who were incorporated as part of the agreements he wove before taking office with non-Kirchnerist sectors.
In effect, Milei evaluates the steps to follow, with the premise that the blockade of the “Bases for the freedom of Argentines” project forces him to recalculate his government's roadmap and also the eventual political agreements.
“What did not happen in Congress cannot just be allowed to pass,” they argue close to the head of state.
It turns out that the doubt was due to what the presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni had expressed from Buenos Aires, who in an attempt to move the issue from center stage, indicated that "the President is not evaluating any resignation," which was interpreted erroneously by some, with the idea that it denied that the possibility of dismissing officials was open;
when in reality he hid the specific fact that none of the officials presented his resignation.
Adorni himself cut short by clarifying that "if any episode (due to a dismissal) or resignation occurs, it will be due to management and suitability issues and not due to a political issue."
As Clarín learned, Milei celebrated Bullrich's sayings, who in response to those who separate the actions of legislators from their political references, governors and officials, explained his personal situation: "I don't have to tell my deputies to vote for the laws." of the Government”, he ironized on LN+ this Thursday night.
Another fact: Milei reposted a video with the statements of the PRO leader.
The minister also held officials responsible "for what their relatives do", in clear reference to the head of the ANSeS, Osvaldo Giordano
, whose wife, national representative Alejandra Torres, voted against several articles.
Giordano has his dismissal already assured, the President's entourage confirms
.
But he is not the only one of those who respond to the former governor of Córdoba, Juan Schiaretti, and the current Martín Llaryora: on the first line of the Cabinet: the Secretary of Transportation, Franco Mogetta, is also in the crosshairs;
and the president of Banco Nación, Daniel Tillard.
In any case, the “purification” that the Government is talking about would not be linear, depending on the origin, but rather it is
analyzed “case by case.”
“They are not all the same,” they argue.
It is an umbrella that they opened from Buenos Aires because there are officials on the payroll who are supported by some Milei ministers.
One of them, Guillermo Francos (Interior), joined the official delegation in Rome and in Casa Rosada they discount that he will have a talk on this topic with the President: for example, the position of Tillard, who shared his stage with Francos at Banco Provincia during Daniel Scioli's tenure as governor, seems less committed than that of Giordano and Mogetta:
"Tillard is the only one who can be saved
," clarifies someone who heard the President refer to the subject.
On the other hand, those close to the President do
not rule out that Pettovello (who also joined the delegation in Rome) carries out negotiations for the head of the ANSeS
.
But the same sources heard the President say that "with Giordano he will not be successful."
Meanwhile,
the Secretary of Mining, Flavia Royón, bishop of the governor of Salta, Gustavo Sáenz, seems to have her days numbered.
“He's also leaving
,” confided someone of importance in the limited delegation that arrived in Italy.
It is still a bold forecast, given that the former head of the Energy area during the administration of Alberto Fernández, aligned with Sergio Massa, was defended by businessmen and even received a nod from the United States ambassador, Marc Stanley.