2023-11-24 12:54:00
The Economist Carlos Rodriguezone of the main advisors of the team of the current president-elect Javier Mileyadvertisement his departure from Council of Economic Advisors of the front that won, less than a week ago, in the runoff once morest Sergio Massa.
“Through this present communication my unwavering decision to terminate any formal relationship, real or presumed, economic advice in La Libertad Avanza“wrote the academic and former Secretary of Economic Policy during the government of Carlos Menem through his account. Xthe social network formerly known as Twitter.
This decision takes place following the revolt generated by homophobic comments expressed in the last hours in an interview with the journalist Luis Novaresioin The Nation+where he stated that “your tummy hurts” if you see two men kissing.
“I know that you (referring to the journalist) You’re gay, and I feel perfectly 100% comfortable.but if I see two women kissing, I love it, and if I see two men kissing, my belly hurts“, he expressed in a talk where he referred to the private life of the interviewer.
“I think I will be much more useful to the cause of freedom if I can give your opinion freely without my ideas having to be associated with a political party or a person,” Rodríguez wrote in his statement.
To close, congratulated Milei and “to all the members of La Libertad Avanza” for “the wonderful work they have done in favor of transforming our beloved country for the better“.
Liberal economists rejected Luis Caputo as Milei’s eventual Minister of Economy
The lack of consultations and the appointment of Caputo, two of the reasons for Rodríguez’s departure
Later, and as a result of the doubts that arose among the followers of the political party due to this decision, he remarked: “I haven’t been consulted in months. He had made the decision a long time ago. Today is the optimal time since Javier appointed the Minister of Economy and changed the President of the BCRA. The house is now in order.”
The latter is related to the, in the absence of a Cabinet announcement, which will be made in the coming days already in the midst of the imminent inauguration, election of Luis Caputo and Demian Reindel to be in charge of the Treasury Palace and the financial organizationrespectively.
“Caputo is a person who is fit to be in officewith the necessary experience to dismantle the situation we have,” said the president-elect during a television interview in A Dos Voces a couple of days ago.
Caputo held the positions of Secretary of Finance and head of the Central Bank in the government of Mauricio Macri. According to him, he convinced Milei following presenting him with an alternative proposal to dollarization, which led the economist Emilio Ocampo to cum
For its part, Reidel is a physicist, economist and Harvard researcheralso related to the PRO and was second vice president of the BCRA during the management of Federico Sturzenegger in the government of Together for Change.
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