Javie Milei announces closure of Télam and elimination of retirement for presidents

In his speech at the opening of ordinary sessions of Congress, Javier Milei announced that it is closing the Télam agency. In addition, he anticipated a protocol so that no politician can travel on private planes for personal use.

Javie rMilei announces closure of Télam and elimination of retirement for presidents

“We are going to close the Télam agency, which has been used in recent decades as a Kirchnerist propaganda agency,” the President said this Friday night in Congress.

Regarding the personal flights of politicians, he questioned the use of medical planes.

“Both I and my officials travel on commercial flights, and not on private flights, as politicians who have a lax conception of what a medical plane is used to do”Milei pointed out.

And then he made his announcement on the matter.

“For this reason, in the coming days the National Civil Aviation Administration will establish a new regulatory criterion for that no politician or family of politicians can use private planesexcept for strictly official matters”Milei explained.

A package of “anti-caste laws”. Milei announced the elimination of privileged retirements for presidents and vice presidents.

Likewise, he said that they will force unions to elect authorities periodically, supervised by the electoral justice system, with only one reelection possible, and specific collective agreements will take precedence over collective agreements in the sector.

The Argentine president highlighted the closure of INADI, which spent millions of pesos to maintain paid militants.

On the other hand, he questioned the creation of universities because he considered it to be converted into another political business and maintained that in some of these establishments open left-wing curricula proliferate.

“Populism took away 90% of our income”

The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, denounced this Friday that populism stole a good part of the population’s income, when reviewing the “inheritance” received from the Administration of the Peronist Alberto Fernández (2019-2023).

“Populism took away 90% of our income to the point that a third of formal workers are poor,” said the president at the beginning of his speech before the Legislative Assembly, which serves as the beginning of its ordinary sessions and which offers, as he himself recalled, 82 days after the start of his administration, on December 10.

The libertarian president received shouts and applause of support from the legislators of his party, La Libertad Avanza (far-right), which represents 15% of the Chamber of Deputies and less than 10% of the Senate.

Also from his cabinet, who attended in full, except the chancellor, Diana Mondino, who was at the wedding of one of her children.