President Javier Milei announced tonight that it will create in the coming days the Council of Economic Advisors. The space will be chaired by Demián Reidel and will have among its ranks the legislator Ramiro Marrawho thanked the opportunity online.
The broker and founding member of LLA This Thursday he did not manage to take over the leadership of the Buenos Aires block and his place was taken Maria del Pilar Ramireza leader who years ago joined the Kirchnerist group La Cámpora, but today is very close to the general secretary of the Presidency, Karina Milei.
However, the sadness over the defeat did not last long given that hours later he received the invitation from Milei to be incorporated as ad honorem advisor of the Council of Economic Advisorsan organization that will be created in the coming days and that seeks to reissue the function of the group of economists that accompanied him during the campaign.
Javier Milei announced the creation of the Council of Economic Advisors
The president announced tonight in a television interview with the La Nación + channel that he will revive the function of the Council and that the graduate in Physics and doctor in Economics, Demián Reidel will be the one who presides. Furthermore, he confirmed that Marra It will be another of the members.
Marra expressed through “X” his gratitude “to President Javier Milei for proposing that I join his Council of Economic Advisors, it is a commitment that I decide to take with great honor and responsibility.”. “We will continue working together to achieve a better Argentina. LONG LIVE FREEDOM!”
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I want to thank the president @JMilei for proposing to join your Council of Economic Advisors, it is a commitment that I decide to take with great honor and responsibility.
We will continue working together to achieve a better Argentina. LONG LIVE FREEDOM! pic.twitter.com/NlKwQomA80
— Ramiro Marra (@RAMIROMARRA) March 8, 2024
The Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, greeted the legislator after the news was announced. With a synthetic message, the head of the Treasury Palace and implementer of the fort public spending adjustment that carries forward the National government, express: “How good Ramiro!!”.
It is worth remembering that in times of electoral campaign, Milei He surrounded himself with a group of economists close to his ideas who served as a kind of Council, similar to the one he would soon create, and which had among its ranks the former head of CEMA, Carlos Rodríguez, today away from the head of state. They were also part Emilio Ocampo (one of the drivers of dollarization), Dario Epstein (former Menemist official) and the former Minister of Economy of Menemism, Roque Fernandez.
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At the moment, it is unknown who will be the remaining members of the core of economic advisors of Milei, in addition to Reidel, who occupied the vice presidency of the BCRA during the administration of Mauricio Macri, and Mara, who entered the Legislature in 2021 at the hands of Milei, after serving in the military for some years with Roberto Lavagna in the missing alliance Federal Consensus. However, the broker He had known the current head of state since 2005 when he had him as a professor at the University of Salvador.
Meanwhile, the block LLA in the Legislature will be driven by Ramírez, who has a camper past, being close to the former president of Aerolíneas Argentinas Mariano Recalde. Between 2008 and 2016 he served as manager of Marketing of the flag line.
Some time later he passed non-stop from Kirchnerism to the libertarian space, through which he entered the Legislature last December, forging a close relationship with Karina Milei.
Source: Ambito