This is the lawyer Guillermo Francos, 73 years old. He had been appointed to the position by Alberto Fernández in 2019. He announced his departure in a statement.
william francosArgentine representative before the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), announced this Sunday his resignation from the position of executive director of that entity, in which he had been serving since the beginning of the Government of Alberto Fernández, to join the party javier milei and be an official of a possible administration of the libertarian deputy.
The news comes just a week after the surprise triumph of Milei and her space, La Libertad Avanza, in the Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory Primaries (PASO) last Sunday, where the economist and deputy obtained 30% of the votes nationwide. .
The statement of Guillermo Francos
“Taking into account the offer made to me by Javier Milei to join his work team in the event of being elected President of the Nation, having decided to accept it and currently holding the position of Executive Director for Argentina and Haiti at the Inter-American Development Bank, Being at the same time the Dean of its Board of Directors, I have made the decision to step away from said function in the coming days in order not to affect any sensitivity at such a crucial moment in our young democracy,” Francos said in a statement.
He also stated that “I am grateful for the opportunity that was given to me to defend the interests of our country, and of Latin America and the Caribbean, in the most important Development Institution in the region.”
“I am convinced of having honored that trust, as I am also of accepting to work in the team led by Javier Milei to build a liberal Argentina as conceived by (Juan Bautista) Alberdi: modern, developed, fairer and more dignified”, concluded.
Who is Guillermo Francos?
Francos, 73, had been appointed by Fernández to the IDB in 2019 and is now being mentioned as a possible Interior Minister in an eventual Milei government.
The lawyer held public office since the 1970s, including in the government of María Estela Martínez de Perón. He continued to hold various positions until, with the return of democracy, he was elected councilor for the Federal Party.
In 1989 his party supported the presidential candidacy of the radical Eduardo Angeloz and in 1995 he did the same with the Peronist Carlos Menem.
He went to the Action for the Republic party, of domingo horse, for which he was a national deputy; He worked at the Eurnekian Group -commanded by Eduardo Eurnekian-, where he met Milei, and was president of the Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires during the government of Peronist Daniel Scioli.
Source: Ambito
