Less than a year after being appointed as presidential spokesman, Manuel Adorni will be promoted within the organic structure of the Executive Branch and will have the rank of MinisterHis appointment comes in a context in which the president Javier Milei struggle to consolidate the strong fiscal adjustment that carries out its Government.
Adorni, who currently serves as spokesman of the national administration, was until today the head of the Undersecretariat of Government Spokesperson and Communication, a department that is under the wing of the General Secretariat of the Presidency who leads Karina Milei.
His promotion, confirmed this Tuesday by official sources, Scope, will push it out from the orbit of the president’s sister and will become part of the select group of officials who depend directly and exclusively on the Presidency of the Nation and who are officially considered ministers, despite not being part of the organizational chart of the Chief of Staff.
This way, Adorni will be on equal terms with its own Karina Milei, the Secretary of Legal and Technical Affairs, Javier Herrera Bravo; the Press Secretary, Eduardo Serenellini, and the head of SIDE, Sergio Neiffert.
Thus, with the new change in the state structure, the Executive Branch will have two officials linked to official communication with ministerial rank: the President himself Adorni, as a spokesperson, and Serenellini, current head of the Press Secretariat.
The rise of Manuel Adorni: from spokesperson to Minister
The figure of the spokesperson of Javier Milei It grew little by little throughout the year, in parallel with the expansion of its area, with the incorporation of dozens of workers under its orbit. Currently, it has about 100 people: Under his figure, seven national directorates, 14 simple directorates and 16 coordinations are consolidated.
The promotion of the spokesman in the structure of the State will be confirmed at the beginning of October and will be accompanied by an increase in his salary. Currently, the sub-secretariat of which he is the head takes more than $300 million per month.
In recent times, Adorni, In addition to starring in morning press conferences, he also became a member of the “small table” of the Government, inaugurated at the end of August, composed of the “iron triangle” that includes the Milei brothers and the advisor Santiago Caputo, who are joined by the Chief of Staff, Guillermo Francos, the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich and the speaker of the House of Representatives, Martin Menem.
The news comes just days after the very head of state be presented to Congress Budget 2025 with which he will seek to consolidate the adjustment of public spending, with lower expenditure of funds through cuts to sensitive items, such as education and science, among others.
Source: Ambito
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