The head of the cabinet of ministers of the Argentine Government, Nicolas Possehas submitted his resignation for “difference in criteria and expectations”a resignation that has been accepted by the president of the country, Javier Mileias reported this Monday by official sources.

“This decision was motivated by the difference in criteria and expectations in the progress of the Government and the tasks entrusted to it,” reads the official statement from the Head of the Cabinet of Ministers, which adds that Posse “will continue to accompany, as from day one, the ideas of freedom, the defense of life and property, and the project of a free Argentina” from “a new role”without giving details of that role.

The text also reports on the “orderly transition” that will begin this week together with the Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francoswho will assume the role from now on.

With just minutes of difference, the Office of the President of Argentina – which issues the president’s official notes – shared a text on social networks about Posse’s resignation to immediately give all the spotlight to Francos, who, it said, will take office. “with the aim of providing greater political volume to the Chief of Staff.”

“Francos will contribute his professionalism, experience and political capacity to the Chief of Staff after successfully holding the position of Minister of the Interior, having been one of the architects of the feat that brought Javier Milei to the presidency, and being recognized by all the political forces for their management capacity and consensus,” says the note from the Presidential Office.

Furthermore, the text reports that the powers of the Ministry of the Interior – fundamentally in charge of relations with the provincial governments – remain under the orbit of the Chief of Staffwithin which there will be a Secretary of the Interior, which will be occupied by Lisandro Catalán, a close collaborator of Francos.

Posse was one of the people closest to Milei within the cabinet, together with his sister and general secretary of the Presidency, Karina Milei. However, in recent times, as a result of the negotiation for the approval of the Law Bases and Starting Points for the Freedom of Argentines – still being processed in the Senate -, Francos was rising in the Executive due to his positive dialogue with the opposition.

News of Posse’s resignation closes a week of rumors and speculation about his possible departure from the Executive; The president himself had asserted in an interview and, later, his spokesperson, Manuel Adorni, had confirmed it, that all the members of the cabinet were under Milei’s magnifying glass.

Both statements were released just a few minutes before the libertarian politician embarked on a new trip to USA, the fourth since he assumed the Presidency on December 10. Before returning to Argentina, he will assist in The Savior to the inauguration of Nayib Bukele’s second presidential term, on his first visit to a Latin American country as president of Argentina.