Argentine President Javier Milei has decided to fire his infrastructure minister, Guillermo Ferraro, a month and a half after his appointment. Although there is no official announcement yet, Milei made the decision after suspecting that Ferraro had leaked confidential government information, according to Infobae newspaper.
Once the measure takes effect, Milei's idea will be effective, according to the same medium that the ministry be downgraded to the rank of a secretariatwhich will depend on who his economic colleague, Minister Luis Caputo, has been so far.
However, the television channel TN cites “differences” in the relationship between Ferraro and Milei's chief of staff and man of greatest trust, Nicolás Posse, who, along with his sister Karina Milei, is perhaps the person closest to the president in the Cabinet, Efe reports.
During the day, some of the President's words came to light that he said at the ministerial meeting this Thursday at the Casa Rosada (Government Headquarters): “I will leave them penniless, I will melt them all down.”
With these sentences he referred to the governors of the provinces and confirmed what the Minister of Economy Luis Caputo had said the day before on social networks, at a time when the ruling party is working on the implementation of the legal bases and starting points for the freedom of the Argentines , better known as the “Omnibus Law.”
“The zero deficit is not negotiated,” Caputo explained in his X account, warning that “if all the economic measures proposed in the bill are not approved, the adjustment will be larger essentially for the provinces.”
Caputo added that he is already “evaluating the provincial allocations that will be immediately cut if any of the economic articles are rejected,” clarifying that “it is not a threat,” but rather a “confirmation” that the Libertarian government “is will stick to it.” with the mandate of “the majority of Argentines”. balance fiscal balances to end decades of inflation and economic scourge.”
This first crisis in the Milei government comes just a month and a half after the assumption of the Argentine presidency on December 10 and a day after the first general strike of the main trade union center, the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), against the libertarian adjustment policies.