by In your New Year’s greetings, Javier Milei made a harsh diagnosis of the situation in Argentina and demanded that Congress approve the shock measures that he had sent through the omnibus law. In that speech, he also raised the idea that the reforms would allow us to aspire to, within a period of 45 yearsmultiplies GDP per capita by 10 times, “reaching levels similar to Ireland.”
The comparison received numerous questions and many criticized the length of the deadline to be able to see in reality the effect of the sacrifice that Government officials have been asking for since they took office. Now, in a radio interview, the president sought to propose a closer scenario: he promised that most of the improvements would be reflected in daily life within 15 years.
“I have good news, in the convergence processes two-thirds of the improvement occurs in the first third. “You see the improvement in 15 years,” she stated this morning in dialogue with radio Delta 90.3, before entering the Cabinet meeting.
“We have a conscience. Doing nothing or doing the same thing we had been doing was going to be infinitely worse. I do not want an Argentina with 98% poor and half indigent. We are working with all our might to avoid the crisis and we are achieving it “he added.
The president’s radio statements occurred before entering the Cabinet meeting, which focused on the analysis of government management issues; the implementation of the decree of necessity and urgency (DNU) 70/23, which promotes economic and political reforms; and the progress of the bills that will be addressed during the special session period.
When asked about the judicialization of his reform package and the rejection in Congress by the opposition, he responded: “The parties have 90 minutes, they don’t finish until the final whistle, We are confident that everything will work out.“.
President Milei’s meeting with his ministers took place before the technical visit to the country that a delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will carry out, in which the Government will seek to advance in the renegotiation of the agreement that the previous administration signed with the multilateral organization. . .
The head of state had arrived at the Government House at 7:44 and 45 minutes later the meeting with his ministers and officials began.
On Wednesday, the ruling of the National Chamber of Labor Appeals put a stop to the labor reform chapter included in President Milei’s mega DNU and the CGT ratified the half-day strike for Wednesday, January 24.
The Government will appeal the ruling of the Labor Chamber that stopped the reform, given the CGT’s proposal to the labor segment of the “deregulatory” DNU and will request the “incompetence” of that jurisdiction to deal with the file so that it can be treated by a federal court in administrative litigation.
Furthermore, in the Senate of the Nation, despite the fact that the libertarians together with the UCR and the PRO had everything agreed to unblock the debate on the Single Paper Ballot (BUP), one of the projects that is included in the agenda of extraordinary . , dissident Peronism put a stop to the official envoy and together with Kirchnerism postponed, for now, a definition on this modification of the electoral law that since June 2022 has half the sanction of Deputies.
Meanwhile, this Thursday the five commissions will meet in which several of the main bills sent to the National Congress by the President will be analyzed to debate during the period of extraordinary sessions. They will be approved today, after the ruling party defined the political strategy. . with which to try to face your treatment.
Milei met yesterday at the Casa Rosada with the members of the La Libertad Avanza (LLA) bloc of deputies and, according to the presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adorni, the Government has “full confidence” that the initiatives included in the so-called Bases Law and Starting Points for the Freedom of the Argentines will have “news” before the end of January.
