The President of Argentina, Javier MileiAs his spokesman reported Tuesday, he will stop flying on commercial airlines as he did during his first four months in office, a practice he used to cut costs.
“The president can no longer travel on commercial flights and the Ministry of Security has sent a confidential report to all parties on the reason for this proposal,” spokesman Manuel Adorni said at a news conference.
Security Minister Patricia Bullrich told broadcaster LN+ on Monday: “There is no money, but we have to take care of the president.”
Milei and his team are expected to use the Boeing 757-256 “Tango 01” on a trip to Bariloche in the south of the country on Friday, where the president will attend a meeting with business people.
After taking command in December, Milei made cost-cutting moves to lift Argentina out of the economic crisis afflicting it, reporting, among other things, that he and his team would forego travel on the three planes in his air fleet.
Since then, he has traveled on commercial airlines with a small entourage and posted videos on his social media of himself greeting and taking photos with other passengers.
So he traveled to the holiday resort of Mar del Plata to visit his girlfriend at the time, the actress Fátima Florez; and then to Davos, his international debut as president, where he captivated the world’s business elite by warning that “the West is in danger.”
On this occasion, the President celebrated in the network
His most recent trip came last week when he flew to the US with Aerolíneas Argentinas and met with tycoon Elon Musk in Texas. The tour was scheduled to continue in Copenhagen on Saturday, but Milei canceled the remaining leg and returned to his country to form a “crisis committee” over the Iranian attack Israel this day.
Milei then expressed his “solidarity and unwavering commitment to the state.” Israel“.
SPRING: AFP
