Francos was received by Martin Menemhead of the lower house, in a session that could last seven hours. In his speech, the official spoke about the reduction in rental prices, elimination of formalities, reduction of public spending, trade deregulation and flexibilization of payment mechanisms. Among the omissions, he avoided the relevant questions about the role of Santiago Caputoexecutive salaries of state companies, university budget or details of the 2025 Budget Law. In this framework, he summarized that the decisions of the current Government “they set in motion a different expectation for economic activity.”
“During the campaign, the President maintained his intention to fight strongly against State spending, seeking fiscal balance and fighting insecurity“, the Chief of Staff began his presentation, highlighting the bastions that the current administration prioritizes, and continued reading: “There is no government in the world that has managed to pass laws that change the country in such a profound way. and lay the foundations for growth and stability.”
Besides, Guillermo Francos He referred to the veto of increases for pensions: “The sanction of the bill that establishes modifications to the pension mobility regime does not constitute a mature and responsible act because it establishes exorbitant expenses“. In contrast, he argued that the retirement system approved by decree by Javier Milei “allowed a recovery of the purchasing power of retirement pensions of almost 10% so far this year” and called for “avoiding illusions of unfounded improvements.”
The Cabinet Office received 3,535 queries from legislators, which were unified into 2,135: the block of Union for the Homeland was the one that questioned the official the most with 1,041 questions, followed by the bench of the Radical Civic Union (401), the PRO (208), Federal Meeting (143) and the Civic Coalition (131). The Santafesino Eduardo Toniolli (UP) was the one that made the most requests, with 98; followed by the Buenos Aires Vanina Biasi (FIT) with 72 and the Buenos Aires native Juan Marino (UP) with 69. In the previous incident, on May 15, Nicholas Posse answered 1,286 questions.
Guillermo Francos: economic development in the House of Representatives
Guillermo Francos began with criticism of the past economic management (“There was an elephantine, inefficient and corrupt Statewhich provided very poor quality services to citizens”) and stated that the arrival of Javier Milei reversed that course: “We began to build a foundation for a new Argentina; a country with freedom, without inflation, without deficit, with a small state with fewer taxeswith stability and without insecurity.”
It was in this context that he highlighted that “The passing of the Bases law was a huge milestone in this administration” since it constitutes “an instrument that sets in motion a different expectation for economic activitybeyond the achievements that the Government is obtaining.” “This law returns freedom to Argentines, promotes private activity, attracts investments and generates jobs,” he added.
He then referred to “the Return of Argentina’s creditwhich also benefits the productive sector; in July the Banco Nación placed credits for $1.6 billion” and assured that “We solved the famous Leliqs ball” and “We reorganized the payment of the external debtmeeting all the due dates. All this without the Treasury receiving financing from the Central Bank.”
About the energy productionhighlighted the “surplus in the first half of 2024. A fact that has not been recorded for 15 years, with the exception of a brief period during the pandemic.” “We achieved the highest gas production in the last 17 years and the highest oil production in the last 15. We are beginning to slowly normalize a sector that is fundamental for the growth and development of the country.”
In turn, he said that “This new Argentina that we are building requires a new fiscal pact between the National State and the taxpayers.” and developed the launch of the “moratoriums on tax, customs and social security debts, and we promoted the regularization of assets acquired in the country and abroad. We want taxpayers to be able to regularize their assets under better conditionsand that the scope of this measure will last beyond possible changes of government.”
Guillermo Francos: Security and Justice in the House of Representatives
The first applause of the day occurred when the Chief of Staff spoke about the Flag Planwhich “mobilized more than 1,700 troops and 170 vehicles and resulted in a month without homicides in Rosario. This is the longest period since 2013.”The coordination of the national, provincial and municipal governments of Rosario put an end to a city dominated by narcoterrorism“Today Rosario has regained its peace,” he said.
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He also referred to a series of laws that the ruling party presented, and listed: “Anti-mafia Law, Repetition Law, modifications to the National Registry of Genetic Data, Law on Regularization of Firearms Holders, lowering the age of imputability, creation of the Applied Artificial Intelligence Unit.” In that sense, he compared these projects with “the new anti-picket protocol, the demonstrations were orderedand the violent extortion of those who believed themselves to be the owners of the streets ended.”
Guillermo Francos did not avoid the formation of the State Intelligence Secretariat (SIDE): “We find ourselves with a Federal Intelligence Agency that is completely dismantled and underfunded […]. That’s why, We sent the DNUs to Congress to discuss the budget required by the new SIDEwith a completely reasonable sum to set up an intelligence system that truly protects Argentines.” However, the decrees are not sent to the Legislative Branch and there was no prior discussion of the funds for financing.
He then pointed out that “we made a great effort to expedite the greatest number of competitions” to fill vacancies in the Council of the Judiciary, the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Ministry of Justice: “We are considering the lists of three candidates for 139 judge positions.”In just five months, we sent out lists of candidates to fill 55 vacancies. This exceeds the total number sent annually in 17 of the last 24 years.”he compared.
Guillermo Francos: the functions of the Ministry of Human Capital
The Chief of Staff analyzed that “in social matters, We are moving forward firmly with the decision to assist the most vulnerable and eliminate the managers of povertywhich profit from the needs of the people.” In this regard, and prior to commenting on the increases in social allocations, he commented that “we enabled the anonymous complaints line 134, where we received more than 160,000 calls. Of that total, 60% involve irregularities in the management of social plans and 9,000 resulted in legal complaints.”
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“The results of the PISA tests show us that we are a country that has fallen in educational levels and we have to recover it,” he reflected before pointing out the launch of the “National Literacy Plan, a historical debt of our countrywhich has not been able to guarantee so far “an educational system that allows young people to develop their lives in freedom”.
For his part, he stressed “the declaration of education as an essential servicewhich has already been partially approved in this House. With this initiative, we ensure that schools remain open despite any attempt to union strike and we guarantee 180 days of classes throughout the country“The measure prevents any forceful action in the midst of a context of equal pay claims by teachers’ unions.
Guillermo Francos’ main comment on university policies was when referring to the police intervention of the University of Mothers of Plaza de Mayosuggesting the misappropriation of public funds, and then noted that “UBA did not provide funds for 80% of the resources used in 2015”“The national government has its own point of view on university funding,” he said in the midst of the debate over the approval of a budgetary reinforcement in the Senate.
Source: Ambito
