Karina Milei
's chainsaw
remains sharp and now seeks to reduce the spending that the State allocates to solve the protection system for former presidents, which the ruling party clearly considers
"oversized."
Thus, in the coming weeks a decree would be made official that would modify this structure that, by a measure ordered by Alberto Fernández hours before leaving power, falls under the General Secretariat led by the president's sister.
This resolution by the former president caused a dispute between him and the Minister of Security,
Patricia Bullrich,
who even last December erroneously reported that her portfolio had repealed the amendment dictated by the current head of the Justicialist Party.
The point is that said regulations are still in force and guarantee security coverage for former presidents that, according to
the current official narrative of "austerity", is "inexplicable."
Although the service
depends on the Military House
, which, in the official organization chart, is under the umbrella of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, the resources for its operation are provided by a portfolio that historically was in charge of the lifelong protection of former presidents.
As explained in the secretariat led by the President's influential sister,
Cristina Kirchner
has permanent custody of 120 members of the Federal Police, Mauricio Macri, with 30 and Alberto Fernández, with 3
who, in the latter case, are currently serving in Spain. logically adding more onerous travel expenses.
Precisely the question that was asked of the former president was that he made that last-minute change to guarantee himself a permanent escort abroad.
Meanwhile,
Eduardo Duhalde
, who governed Argentina after the 2001 crisis,
does not have protection
from federal forces, according to Casa Rosada.
Cristina, the most guarded
The extensive protection system that surrounds
Cristina
has a mitigating factor: the attack she suffered at the door of her Recoleta apartment on September 1, 2022 at the hands of
Fernando Sabag Montiel.
What they propose in the ruling party, however, is that
Victoria Villarruel's predecessor
has permanent security in her residences in Santa Cruz and logically in her current Constitution department.
"Even her granddaughter has custody,"
explains a libertarian leader consulted who, maliciously, alleges that Macri himself also has an escort when he travels abroad.
As this newspaper was able to find out, the reform underway requires collaborative work between Karina Milei's advisors and those of Bullrich.
As stated, the program depends on Casa Militar but the financing and operation correspond to Security, which is in charge of the
Presidential Custody Division and the Custody Unit of Former Presidents of the Federal Police.
From the ministerial headquarters located in Gelly and Obes, meanwhile, they confirm to
Clarín
that
"a new decree is about to be issued"
to regulate this activity but they have placed in the General Secretariat the responsibility of
"determining"
the changes to make the system more efficient. .
The official intention, apparently, is to limit the custody function to former presidents.
"We must define which family members it corresponds to and which ones it does not, for example," indicates the official source consulted
.
The thing is that the Government assures that the structure that provides protection to former presidents is "oversized" and produces a disproportionate expense in consideration of the function for which it was created decades ago.
"
The current spending system is crazy. The 2004 decree only covered presidential security but later it was expanded
," acknowledges, in turn, a former member of the presidential custody system consulted by this newspaper.