6:31 p.m. – The government and IMF meeting finally takes place on Friday
Presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni announced this afternoon that the meeting with the IMF technical team would take place on Friday rather than tomorrow as originally reported.
“The government meeting with the IMF will take place on Friday. Luis Cubeddu and Ashvin Ahuja, representatives of the organization, will meet with the Minister of Economy Luis Caputo, the Chief of Staff Nicolás Posse and the authorities of the Central Bank,” Adorni said through his account on the social network X (ex Twitter).
The presidential spokesman announced that the agenda that the directors of the multilateral organization will develop beyond the meeting with Caputo and Posse also includes “various meetings of the technical teams.”
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2 p.m. – The National Chamber of Labor stopped Milei DNU's labor reforms
The court's decision follows a proposal from the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) and considers that the situation was of “extreme urgency” to allow the executive to legislate on subjects within the competence of the National Congress. not given was configured.
DNU 70/2023, published on December 27, introduced changes to labor laws regarding the interpretation of regulations, hiring, working hours, compensation and union activities. Although it was valid from December 30th, it has now been suspended by the judiciary.
1:52 p.m. – The government has asked to give the justice fair the opportunity to discuss protection from the DNU
Prosecutor Miguel Ángel Gilligan asked to reject the authorization of the judicial fair to discuss the protection of a civil association against the DNU of President Javier Milei.
The reason is that the appeal is being heard before the Federal Administrative Court 2, which will be replaced by Enrique Lavié Pico over the summer.
The lecture comes from the Right to the City Observatory, which was the first to do so after the DNU was announced and which has already called for the summer break to be allowed due to the implementation of the decree.
1:00 p.m. – Milei travels to Santa Cruz and waits for a weather window that will allow her to travel to Antarctica
President Javier Milei will travel to Santa Cruz next Friday to wait for a favorable weather window that will allow him to take the flight that will take him to the Antarctic base of Marambio.
Official sources confirmed today that the head of state will travel to Río Gallegos with a plane and a small delegation.
As previously reported, the President will officially launch a pollution control program sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), led by Argentinian Rafael Grossi, who will attend the ceremony.
12:00 – Milei creates a roadmap for his lawmakers
President Javier Milei chaired this morning a meeting with national deputies of the ruling party to analyze the strategy to try to approve the projects presented by the executive for consideration in extraordinary sessions.
This was confirmed by presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni in his usual daily press conference, who pointed out that the meeting, which lasted almost two hours, was about working out “the legislative strategy and progress on this matter”.
In addition, he pointed out that the formation of commissions in Congress is “imminent” and that once the bicameral committee for the analysis of emergency and emergency decrees (DNU) is established, the national government will transmit the DNU launched on December 21 becomes .
11.25 – Milei has the BCRA directory almost complete
President Javier Milei signed a decree appointing accountant Ariel Montenegro as new trustee of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (BCRA) and lawyer Ignacio Pérez Cortés as deputy trustee of the company. The appointments are of a temporary nature, pending the approval of the Senate for the permanent assumption of both officials in their positions, as set out in Article 36 of the Organ Charter of the BCRA.
In this way, the executive branch is making progress in regulating the institutional situation of the central control bodies, which in the case of the General and Deputy Court of Auditors have been vacant for months.