2023-12-12 01:55:00
Once Alberto Fernández’s mandate in front of the National Executive has ended, the question remains: What will happen to the members of your Cabinet. While some maintained a low profile following the change of Government or said goodbye with the balance of their management, others are already occupying public positions.
Three days before the inauguration of Javier Milei, The former president accepted the resignation of all the ministers in his cabinet, a measure that became effective on December 10, when the new president took office and began a new national administration. “The resignation presented is accepted,” reads the first 21 pages of the Official Gazette published in the early hours of December 7, 2023. “The aforementioned official is thanked for the valuable services provided in the performance of said position,” it adds. each of the published decrees.
The elimination of the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity was made official by decree
It was an administration that It initially had 20 ministries, but ended with 18 following the merger of Productive Development and Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, which were absorbed by the Ministry of Economy. Along with the resignations of the ministers, the Chief of Staff, Agustín Rossi, the Secretary General of the Presidency, Julio Vitobello, and the Secretary of Communication and Press of the Presidency, Gabriela Cerruti, also presented their resignations.
According to official sources from the Casa Rosada, this is “the normal procedure. We all already resigned on December 10, and they are being accepted in batches: organizations, secretaries, last ministers. It is what the procedure dictates, it is always done“.
From ministries to Congress
Out of their respective portfolios, Some of the former ministers had a common destiny: Congress. In that sense, Edward “Wado” of Peter (Interior), Victoria Tolosa Paz (Social development), Martin Soria (Justice and Human Rights), Santiago Cafiero (Foreign Relations, International Trade and Worship), Diego Giuliano (Transportation) and Matías Lammens (Tourism and Sports) will perform legislative functions.
Last Thursday, December 7, the new national senators were sworn in at a plenary session chaired by Claudia Ledesma Abdala de Zamora from Santiago, who appointed From Peter to raise the ceremonial flag before singing the National Anthem. The former minister assumed his seat from Unión por la Patria (UxP) representing the province of Buenos Aires, a position that he will hold until 2027.
“Today I was sworn in as national senator for the province of Buenos Aires. An enormous pride and a great responsibility,” the former minister wrote through his social networks.
That same date, the national deputies were also sworn in, among whom were Tolosa Paz, Soria, Cafiero y Giuliano. In this regard, the former head of the Social Development portfolio expressed through social networks that she swore “for democracy and to defend in Congress everything we have built. For the vocation we have to transform the lives of those who need us. For our Argentine flag and for that of social justice.”
In addition to referring to the “enormous task” that the people of Buenos Aires entrusted to himthe representative stated that, upon assuming her position, “my head and my heart were the neighborhoods that do not have sewers, the colleagues who do not have jobs, the women victims of gender violence, the hundreds of poor workers in this country, the unions that we need to rebuild, the natural resources that we have to safeguard, the productive matrix that we have to change, and the education and health that we will always continue to support.”
Before assuming his position, said goodbye to the Ministry of Social Development with a message to the team that accompanied her during the administration. “I thank each worker at the Ministry, who for 14 months rose to the occasion with the enormous conviction of strengthening a present State and building a just, free and sovereign Homeland,” she wrote.
“Thank you eternally for joining me, for believing in politics and for believing in the role of the State. You will find me walking, walking and accompanying to all those who from the organized community will continue working to improve the lives of Argentines,” he added. Likewise, he listed the policies that during his administration, such as “AlimentAR Benefit, the strengthening and federalization of the SAE, the Empower Work, the Return to Study, My Room, My Bathroom”.
Representing Buenos Aires, he also assumed coffeewho assured in radio statements that “we are going to be a united opposition consistent with our doctrine in Deputies”. “It is a different country model that we propose, a country that seeks to expand, generate production and employment. To be a country with a powerful market, you cannot make an adjustment like the one Milei proposes or the one carried out by Macrismo” , stated the former minister. In this way, he spoke out once morest “raffled off monetary sovereignty” or “selling public companies.”
For its part, Soria took over for the province of Río Negro. “As a National Representative, I assume the responsibility of representing in the National Congress the mandate that the people of Rio Negro expressed at the polls,” he wrote on social networks. “With pride and patriotism, I will defend the interests and rights of the people of Rio Negro“he added.
He also did not miss the opportunity to talk regarding his management and criticize Milei’s “chainsaw plan”. “For the chainsaw fans: the Ministry of Justice’s workforce today is 11% smaller than the one left by the Macri administration in 2019. We did this without firing anyone or violating rights, look for another excuse to justify the brutal adjustment what they want!”, he stated.
Giuliano He assumed his seat in the Lower House representing Santa Fe. “I am with great hope, with great expectation, with a Union for the Homeland bloc that has decided on unity. We went to the campaign with the unit and returned from the campaign with the unit and I think that is something very important in the coming country,” he said in statements to the Santa Fe media. The Coast. In addition, He thanked Sergio Massa for “the usual trust”. “I will continue working for a federal, fair and supportive country,” she stated.
As a farewell to his management, He thanked on social networks the work carried out by the workers of the Ministry of Transportation. “Their daily task was fundamental in the daily life of every Argentinean who, directly or indirectly, used public transportation or benefited from investments in bridges, underpasses, the improvement of ports, airports, the reactivation of branch lines. railways and flights or the arrival of the SUBE card,” he wrote.
While, Lammens took over as Buenos Aires deputy. In addition to this, following a vote to appoint the authorities of the Buenos Aires Legislature, he was named second vice president of the precinct.
The landing in Buenos Aires
Axel Kicillof’s second term in the province of Buenos Aires will feature the participation of the former Minister of Public Works, Gabriel Katopodis, as the head of the provincial portfolio of Infrastructure and Public Services. In this way, the former national official occupies that position “with the objective of strengthening and continuing the Provincial Infrastructure Plan carried out by Leonardo Nardini”, who as of this Sunday is once once more mayor of Malvinas Argentinas.
Katopodis will be in charge of the public works in a stage of adjustments. However, he also revealed that will occupy an important political role in the dialogue with the mayors and other political actorssomething that Kicillof’s hard core always found difficult.
Regarding his management in the national portfolio, the former mayor of San Martín shared on social networks that “in these 4 years, We started 7,267 works and completed 4,444 for the development of the Nation“. “We touch every city and town in Argentina to generate work, growth and opportunities. We did Public Works without distinction of political parties,” she said.
Together with him he disembarks in the Buenos Aires Cabinet Silvina Batakis (Economy). The former head of Economy, who preceded Massa, will take charge of the Ministry of Habitat and Urban Development.
For its part, Massa (Economy) maintained a low profile following the defeat in the runoff, an opportunity in which he assured that “a stage ends” in his “political life.” However, agreed to his survival in the province of Buenos Aires. In that sense, he retained the provincial Ministry of Transportation, headed by Jorge D’Onofrio, close to the Tigrense, to which is added the appointment of his wife, Malena Galmarini, as president of the Provincia Group.
While, Jaime Perczyk (Education) was unanimously re-elected as Rector of the National University of Hurlingham (UNAHUR) for the period 2023-2027. This is the third time that he has held this position.
In his speech, he thanked “each and everyone who voted here and the thousands who accompanied the Blue and White list, which is constituted like few lists in Universities in our country.” “Here there is a political group that defines the University’s policy and there is a work team, where there are teachers, students, novice teachers and graduates who carry this forward every day,” he added.
The farewells on social networks of Alberto Fernández’s officials
On the other hand, some of the former ministers did not return to public office. However, They dismissed their efforts through social networks. That is the case of Agustín Rossi (chief of staff), who spoke regarding his new role as “responsible opposition”: “We have the responsibility to exercise responsible opposition. This means opposing those things that are not within our government program.”
“The Argentines in November elected Milei as president. They chose a path, but they also gave us a responsibility: To us, the men and women of Unión por la Patria, they told us ‘you must be the opposition’. And the opposition in Argentina, in a democratic system, has the role of controlling, challenging and also rebuilding a democratic alternative,” the Santa Fe leader stressed.
Daniel Filmus (Science, Technology and Innovation) thanked the Ministry workers, as well as the workers of the national scientific and technological system. In addition, he referred to the State policies carried out by the portfolio, among which he mentioned the Financing Law of the National System of Science, Technology and Innovation; the Law of the National Science, Technology and Innovation Plan 2030; 70% of investment outside the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, and “the largest investment in equipment and infrastructure in history: almost US$500 million in more than 600 pieces of equipment and more than 100 works.”
For its part, Jorge Taiana (Defense) thanked “all the civil and military personnel of the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces for these years of shared work and progress in strengthening the full exercise of sovereignty and National Defense.” While, Kelly Olmos (Labor) considered that “having the responsibility of working in the Ministry of Labor has been the highest distinction with which a Peronist activist can be honored.”
Santiago Maggiotti (Territorial Development and Habitat) spoke regarding the “housing construction records, reaching each Argentine province with decent housing solutions.” “Between 2019 and 2023, 141,612 families fulfilled the dream of having their home, and there are still 96,329 homes under construction throughout the country. “If that is not politics, if it is not the tool to improve realities, then what is it,” she wrote on social networks.
“This Ministry laid the foundations for Argentina to look forward with hope in matters of Habitat. We hope that the management he assumes will enhance what was done well and correct what is necessary. Argentina needs the works to be sustained over time, with a federal perspective and without distinguishing by political parties,” he concluded.
Finally, Ximena Ayelén Mazzina (Women, Gender and Diversity) said goodbye to his position in front of the “ministry that was born to structurally transform every corner of Argentina.” “No one is going to take away this construction that belongs to the entire society, it was born in the streets, it reached the national State and marked a before and following in the history of Argentina, Latin America and is also an example in the world,” he stated. at the same time he assured that “we will continue to meet in the streets with the same strength as always, with hopes and, of course, with a lot of militancy”.
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