Milei meets for an hour with the current Argentine president to begin the transition

The Argentine president, Alberto Fernández, and the elected president, Javier Milei, met for an hour at the Quinta de Olivos (presidential residence) with a view to the beginning of the transition to the Government that will take office on December 10.

“The meeting was held at the Olivos presidential residence with the aim of beginning the institutional transition process between the teams designated by both in the different areas of government,” reported the statement released by the Presidency of Argentina.

Milei, leader of La Libertad Avanza, traveled in a private vehicle from the Hotel Libertador, in Buenos Aires, where his campaign ‘bunker’ has been installed for weeks, and arrived at the presidential residence, located in the province of Buenos Aires, north of the capital, after 8:15 a.m. (11:15 GMT).

He attended the meeting with Nicolás Posse, the strong man of his campaign and who could be his chief of staff.

Postponed one day

Initially this meeting was going to be held on Monday, a holiday in Argentina, but the president-elect’s campaign team finally confirmed that it was not going to take place.

From 8:30 a.m. (11:30 GMT), the incumbent president and the elected president held this meeting that marks the beginning of the transition.

Milei won on Sunday in the second round of the presidential elections against the official candidate and current Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, who this Monday presented the team he trusts that will assume the economic transition.

With 99.28% of tables counted and a participation of 76.31%, the leader of La Libertad Avanza obtained almost 14.5 million votes, 55.69%, while the candidate for Unión por la Patria (Peronism ) was left with 11.5 million votes (44.30%).

Argentina is impatiently waiting for this transition to take place along normal lines given the situation the country is going through.

There is a lot of expectation about the behavior of the stock and currency markets in Argentina this Tuesday, the first business session since Milei won on Sunday, a libertarian economist who has defended the dollarization of the economy and the closure of the Central Bank, among other economic measures. draft.

With an interannual inflation of 142.7%, 40.1% poverty and an exchange rate gap of 200%, the country’s economic situation requires urgent measures to restore peace of mind to a society that voted for a radical change for the period 2023-2027. . With EFE

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