Just a few hours after taking office, Javier Milei has signed his first emergency decree to reduce the number of ministries in Argentina from 18 to nine. This has been the first stop of the Argentine president andn his plan to cut public spendingalthough in his limited cabinet he has left room for what he considers, he says, his boss: his sister Karina.

For her goes “the position of general secretary of the Presidency of the Nation”, as Milei himself pronounced in a controversial event, behind closed doors and without press; act in which, in addition, Karina was able to swear in her position because Milei modified the decree that prohibited appointing related people. Along these lines, in his first hours as president, Milei has ordered audits in each ministry to review the number of employees to the millimeter.

“There is no alternative to adjustment and there is no alternative to shock,” the Argentine president already warned in a speech applauded by hundreds of Argentines waiting for what his first package of economic measures brings. On the table there is already a harsh fiscal adjustment, the devaluation of the peso or the privatization of public companies. However, we will have to continue waiting to see the result of Milei’s mandate.

“The measures will only be known tomorrow“, reported Manuel Ardoni, presidential spokesperson for the Milei Government. Therefore, there will be adjustments in everything, yes, except as far as the president himself is concerned. The new president of Argentina is going to continue at least one more week in the suite of the Hotel Libertador because he is doing renovations in the Casa Rosada. It remains to be seen what his controversial speech translates into.