AGI – “Everyone State-owned companies must be closed. All state-owned companies I'm at a loss. Why do I have to support television and pay scandalous salaries when there are children who are starving? The state has no reason to participate in the economy.” Tough stance from Argentine President Javier Milei who, in an Argentine television program hosted by Mirtha Legrand, criticized state authorities, noting that they cause losses equivalent to one point of GDP.
Argentina's president has called on Congress to hold extraordinary sessions to discuss his controversial reforms. In this respect it has reiterated the need for fiscal adjustments and reiterated the guiding principle of Decree on necessity and urgency: “This is the goal of this DNU trigger an investment shock And No more box kiosks“. Then he added: “We were forced to make a very tough fiscal adjustment. But we are confident that if we can sustain it, it will be very positive.”
Then, on his X account, Milei dismissed the opposition's criticism, calling some of its members “sadistic” and “corrupt.” “It seems that some are sadistic and others are corrupt and want to keep in chains Argentines who want to escape poverty,” he wrote, paraphrasing former Argentine President Arturo Frondizi (1958-1962).
Milei's quote is based on a text published by the late Frondizi as he implemented reforms by decree to nationalize and monopolize the oil market at a time when the country was consuming more fuel than it was producing. The text quoted by the current president read as follows: “The plan of drastic reforms and rapid mobilization of resources that we are implementing requires breaking through the routine of administration.”
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