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The new Argentine president, Javier Milei , formally took office this Sunday (10) announcing the end of an era, “the end of the populist night” and a new social contract. The president, who defines himself as a libertarian liberal, close to figures of the international extreme right ( Trump, Bolsonaro, Abascal, Orban ), did not spare details about the very difficult path that Argentines have ahead of them. The shock measures will begin to be known this Monday and he ruled out any gradualism in their implementation, ensuring that there is no money for it. After taking the oath of office before the National Assembly - deputies and senators - Milei left the Congress building without the traditional speech before the parliamentarians and guests.
In her place, she went to the steps at the main entrance of the building, in front of the immense square almost full of her supporters, to address those gathered there. This gesture, turning his back on the Congress building, was Phone Number Database criticized by some deputies and senators. “No government received a worse inheritance,” he said in his speech, announcing that in the short term the situation will worsen. “There is no alternative to adjustment and there is no alternative to shock, naturally this will have a negative impact on the level of activity, employment, real wages, the number of poor and indigent,” he said. While waiting for the specific measures that will be known shortly, by adjustment we must understand a drastic cut to subsidies, especially to public services; a sharp decrease in social spending; a pruning in public employment; and a brake on public works.
All this will cause, as Milei himself recognized, more poverty, which already reaches almost half of the population. Regarding the inheritance received, he assured that the outgoing government left him with hyperinflation of 15,000% annually and that his top priority was to avoid it, ensuring that such a catastrophe “would bring poverty above 90% and indigence above 50%. ”. Alberto Fernández, the president who was not The reaction of the left to the speech was the call for a mobilization for December 20. Gabriel Solano, leader of the Partido Obrero, described Milei's speech as “extortive,” “because it presents a hyperinflationary panorama to justify that the only possible way is adjustment and this adjustment, contrary to his campaign promises, is not going to pay.”
In her place, she went to the steps at the main entrance of the building, in front of the immense square almost full of her supporters, to address those gathered there. This gesture, turning his back on the Congress building, was Phone Number Database criticized by some deputies and senators. “No government received a worse inheritance,” he said in his speech, announcing that in the short term the situation will worsen. “There is no alternative to adjustment and there is no alternative to shock, naturally this will have a negative impact on the level of activity, employment, real wages, the number of poor and indigent,” he said. While waiting for the specific measures that will be known shortly, by adjustment we must understand a drastic cut to subsidies, especially to public services; a sharp decrease in social spending; a pruning in public employment; and a brake on public works.
All this will cause, as Milei himself recognized, more poverty, which already reaches almost half of the population. Regarding the inheritance received, he assured that the outgoing government left him with hyperinflation of 15,000% annually and that his top priority was to avoid it, ensuring that such a catastrophe “would bring poverty above 90% and indigence above 50%. ”. Alberto Fernández, the president who was not The reaction of the left to the speech was the call for a mobilization for December 20. Gabriel Solano, leader of the Partido Obrero, described Milei's speech as “extortive,” “because it presents a hyperinflationary panorama to justify that the only possible way is adjustment and this adjustment, contrary to his campaign promises, is not going to pay.”