On Friday night,
President
Javier Milei inaugurated the 142 ordinary sessions of Congress with a
lapidary diagnosis
of the state of the Nation in which he interspersed an extensive diatribe against the State and the political system
with a broad call to achieve a consensus
of 10 basic refounding agreements.
In the first section he charged against opposition leaders, unionists, business social movements, governors and journalists whom he called "
the caste model
."
Towards the end he invited former presidents, political leaders and the 24 governors to the signing of the
May Pact
-
an agreement of 10 State policies
- on May 25 in Córdoba.
It will be
subject to the approval of the Base Law and a new fiscal pact
.
The call to seal consensus - which includes, among other proposals, the inviolability of private property, a tax reform, labor reform, the pension system with the option of a private regime - came at the end of the
75-minute presentation
and after to confront all the actors of the political system.
Milei anticipated that he will summon the 24 provincial leaders to a preparatory meeting at the Casa Rosada.
“
We will advance through the law or by decrees
,” she warned anyway.
The main representatives of the PRO celebrated the invitation.
Javier Milei, upon his arrival at the Chamber of Deputies.
Behind him, his sister Karina, the Chief of Staff Nicolás Posse and the ministers Guillermo Francos and Luis Petri.
Photo: JUAN MABROMATA / AFP
The head of state divided the time of his speech between an assessment of the inheritance received (which he described as “the worst in history”), proposals on security, the announcement of the
closure of the Télam news agency
, the sending a package of anti-caste laws and defending the economic course and management.
“The last 20 years have been an
orgy of public spending
,” stated the president at the beginning of his speech, longer than expected.
He also highlighted the growth of poverty, "close to 60 percent," in his words.
The presidential rancor had recipients with first and last name in different passages.
Milei called
Sergio Massa, Juan Grabois, Roberto Baradel and Máximo Kirchner the “
horsemen of failure
”
and described Cristina Kirchner's government as “the worst in history.”
She also alluded to the complaints by intermediaries in the Banco Nación Insurance companies that involve
Alberto Fernández
and the case that the former governor of Jujuy
Gerardo Morales
brought against tweeters in his province.
“The silence of those who call themselves Republicans offends,” she said.
“Faced with obstacles, we are not going to turn back, we are going to continue accelerating.
We are not going to negotiate change (…)
If what they seek is conflict, they will have conflict
,” warned the president who was interrupted on numerous occasions by the applause of his legislators and of pro-government militants and leaders who filled the Congress boxes.
“
He is afraid, the caste is afraid ,” the libertarians sang in an auditorium where the
4 judges of the Supreme Court
, the entire Cabinet and ecclesiastical authorities
were counted .
With the call for the signing of a pact that he imagines to be historic, the President seeks an agreement with the political leaders with whom he confronted in his presentation and periodically on social networks.
“The basic law was tampered with and rejected by
politics that does not want to change
,” described the president who also attacked the governors who “just want to secure their cash.”
Milei referred to the audits of the General Audit Office of the Nation on 114 official agencies.
"The State does not control, it is designed to
generate a kiosk in every place
where possible for the benefit of the bureaucrat on duty," she insisted to justify the cuts to the public administration.
The President reviewed the first 82 days of his administration and celebrated Patricia Bullrich's work in Security, the 5-point reduction in GDP, the elimination of social plans and referred to the fiscal and primary surplus that she achieved in January.
“Although there has been liquefaction.
There has been much more chainsaw
: everything for politics.
“It is an adjustment that has been made to the public sector and not as it has always been done to the private sector,” he stated to applause and after warning that the change cannot happen overnight.
In a mirror of American tradition, Milei sought to give his speech his disruptive stamp and spoke for the first time at 9 p.m. - on prime time television 9 hours later than his predecessors were used to - and from a lectern, instead of occupy the podium of the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies that they occupied.
For the first time and obliged by constitutional mandate, Milei addressed the Legislative Assembly within the premises, a detail that he ignored on the day of his inauguration when he preferred to speak on the steps of Congress.
The President spoke in a Legislative Palace armored by a security operation that included three rings in which agents from 4 federal forces and the City police were distributed to contain what was ultimately a small demonstration of leftist militants.
The head of state finished giving shape to the speech this Friday, in Olivos, where he remained the entire day with the two leaders of his small table: Santiago Caputo and the general secretary of the Presidency Karina Milei.
The president made a brief stop at the Casa Rosada before arriving at the Legislative Palace.
Vice President Victoria Villarruel - in her capacity as president - received him with an extensive hug with which she tried to discredit the versions that - despite Villarruel's will - there is no political dialogue between the two.