Guillermo Francos, about Javier Milei’s speech in Congress: "It was groundbreaking"

The Minister of the Interior, Guillermo Francospraised this Saturday the speech he gave Javier Miley before the National Congress within the framework of the opening of ordinary sessions and called him “groundbreaking.”

In dialogue with the press, during the traditional Coviar breakfast that took place in Mendoza, the official assured that “it was a rupturist speech from the Argentina of the past.”

“Lay the foundations for the future where the political leadership adapts, begins to cut with the past and bets on development,” he stressed.

Milei’s speech

At night, at unusual hours, and from a lectern located in front of the president’s podium of the Chamber of Deputies, President Javier Milei gave his first state situation report with which he inaugurated a new period of ordinary sessions in Congress.

The president’s presentation, which lasted just over an hour, was characterized by a detailed detail of the situation in which the country found itself, since last December 10; a strong criticism of the “political and union caste” and the call for the signing of a new social and economic pact that lays the foundations for a new country model.

After warning them about the “distrust” he has towards different sectors of the national political class, the President announced the decision of his administration to hold a large call for the signing of the “May Pact”, on May 25 at the province of Cordoba.

“In this way, I hope that we can leave behind the antinomies of the past, abandon the recipes of failure and return, just as our founding fathers did more than 200 years ago, to embrace once and for all the ideas of freedom,” said the head of the National Executive Branch (PEN) on the proposal that will seek to establish 10 State policies “that the country needs to abandon the path of failure and begin to travel the path to prosperity.”

“Those 10 State policies are: the inviolability of private property; the non-negotiable fiscal balance; the reduction of public spending to historical levels of around 25% of GDP; a tax reform that reduces tax pressure, simplifies the lives of Argentines and promotes commerce; rediscuss federal tax sharing and put an end forever to the current extortionate model; a commitment by the provinces to advance the exploitation of the country’s natural resources; a modern labor reform that promotes formal work; a pension reform that gives sustainability to the system, respects those who contributed and allows those who prefer to subscribe to a private retirement system; a structural political reform that modifies the current system and realigns the interests of the representatives and the represented; and the opening of international trade so that Argentina once again becomes a protagonist in the global market,” Milei listed.

In his call to the different spaces and sectors, the President also announced that he entrusted key figures in his cabinet with the call to all the governors to sign a pre-agreement and sanction, in the meantime, the basic law and a fiscal relief package for the provinces in Congress. “Once both laws have been passed, as a sign of good will, we will be able to start working on a common document,” he emphasized.

“This is the offer that we put on the table; “It will be up to you and the rest of the leadership to know how to take advantage of the opportunity to change history, or on the contrary, to try to continue down this path of decline,” he concluded.