Axel Kicillof, on Javier Milei’s first year: “It is a party for few and a disaster for the majority”

The governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, This Monday he questioned the economic and social policies implemented during the first year of the government of Javier Milei and affirmed that all the numbers of the libertarian administration “they are in red because “What he has done is a disaster.”. The Buenos Aires chief questioned the cuts in pensions, salaries, education, science and public works: “It is a celebration for a few and a disaster for the majority.”

“Tomorrow marks one year since the government of Javier Milei and there will surely be evaluations in the press. We organized this meeting in San Martín to talk about what many will want to hide. We are not thinking about what is happening on Wall Street, but about the reality of Buenos Aires and Argentine families.: is there where everyone Milei’s numbers are in red because what she has done is a disaster“, he expressed Kicillof in a multi-sector plenary session held in the town of San Martín.

“Milei’s plan to lower inflation is not the one he proposed in the campaign: it is not about dollarizing or closing the Central Bank. He is making a conventional adjustment plan like that of Martínez de Hoz, Cavallo or Macri, in which the dollar is ironed and destroy salaries and pensions of the Argentines,” he denounced.

Axel Kicillof questioned Javier Milei’s cuts in pensions and salaries

He then highlighted that even workers who are in better working conditions have seen a drop in their income. “In the case of retirees, the loss is 20%: we would have to go through all of Argentine history to find out if there was ever a looting of this magnitude”he indicated.

Kicillof stated that the policies implemented by the Government they made the industry fall 12% and currently the used capacity of machinery in factories is 53%. “He says he is looking for investments, but all Milei did was stop half of the Argentine industry.”

He also denounced that since the assumption of the libertarian management in Argentina there are 4 million new poor. “It’s not about numbers, but about people, mothers and kids who are having a bad time. When they talk to us about the President’s alleged triumphs, we respond with what we see in each of the sectors that are represented here: money in Milei’s Argentina it is not enough. That is the summary: there is a party for a few and a disaster for the great majority,” he said.

Then the governor once again emphasized the Government’s adjustment to the retired. “Milei claimed that he was going to carry out a novel adjustment, directed towards the caste sector, but he did the opposite: the most affected were the retirees. Adjusting the elderly is not heroic, but cowardly.”

Kicillof criticized Milei for paralyzing works, opening imports and adjusting in education, science and technology

Kicillof denounced that the Government paralyzed works in the province illegally. “A work is not a line in Excel, but better possibilities, more access and rights. That is why they are against building schools and health centers that improve the lives of our people: Milei is not willing to use the money from the financial scam to give more rights to the people of Buenos Aires and Argentines“, complete.

Furthermore, he maintained that the opening of the imports and the drop in purchasing capacity caused the closure of more than 12,000 SMEs. “Milei is choking Argentine companies. If you want investments, stop suffocating Buenos Aires SMEswhich are the ones that generate most of the jobs,” he said.

As for the education, science and technology warned that the adjustment promoted by Milei is generating a “brain drain” of specialists who leave the country because they cannot find a future in Argentina. “From the province of Buenos Aires we cannot prevent all the damage caused by Milei, but we will continue to make our maximum effort to continue financing the works in the universities with our own funds,” he promised.

In health, he repudiated the deregulation of the prepaid and the medications, that increased by 332%. “Today we see dramatic scenes in pharmacies because there are people who cannot buy the medicines they need: Milei says that the State is a criminal organization, but what was criminal was removing the State from the control and regulation of drug prices.”

Kicillof on the PJ meeting and the electoral future for 2025

At the end of the event he referred to PJ meeting in which he participated this afternoon with Cristina Kirchner, Máximo Kirchner and Sergio Massa: “When we talk about unity, of course it is the unity of the leaders, but it is a unity that contemplates and includes all the sectors that are suffering. “All these sectors have to be in that unit”

Regarding next year’s legislative elections, the governor announced that they will form a common front to build a future alternative. “We are preparing to call on everyone to make an immense front that represents an alternative for the future in Argentina,” he said.

“The province of Buenos Aires is going to be resisting, but also building an alternative for the future,” he continued and called on those present to “work, to be military, to speak, to convince, not to give up.” “They want a cultural battle, we are going to fight it,” the governor concluded amid chants from the “Kicillof president” militancy.