The elected president of Argentina, Javier Milei, confirmed this Monday the first two names of his future Government, which will be made up of eight ministries and will take office on December 10.
The leader of the A Liberdade Avança party (far right) announced that the Ministry of Justice will be headed by criminal lawyer Mariano Cúneo Libarona and that his former candidate for governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, Carolina Píparo, will be the head of the National Administration of Social Security (Anses).
“We are integrating experts from various spaces, but with the conviction of changing Argentina towards the ideas of freedom. The most talented will enter, wherever they come from, what matters is solving the problems of Argentines,” Milei said in statements to Radio Miter.
Cúneo Libarona is a defense lawyer who became known in the 1990s when he defended Guillermo Coppola, Diego Maradona’s former manager, when 400 grams of cocaine were found in his home.
He also gained notoriety when he was detained for three months in the AMIA case, accused of aggravated coercion and concealment for the alleged theft of a video from a judge’s office, at a time when the lawyer represented two police officers accused of theft. .
However, the incident was declared null and void and all were acquitted.
In turn, Píparo is a national deputy and in the October general elections he came in third place in the voting for the position of governor of the province of Buenos Aires, for which Axel Kicillof was re-elected.
Píparo is a social worker and began his political career in the Secretariat for Attention to Victims and Gender Policies of La Plata, province of Buenos Aires.
As promised throughout his campaign, Milei’s Government will be made up of the ministries of Economy, Foreign Affairs, Public Works, Security, Justice, Interior, Defense and Human Capital, which will unify those of Social Development, Health, Labor and Education .
This last super ministry, which will integrate four portfolios into one, should be led by Sandra Pettovello, a specialist in family policies and issues related to health and child development.
The president-elect has not yet confirmed names in key positions such as Foreign Affairs, although he has as a reference the elected representative Diana Mondino, or Economy.
Milei did not say that employees of former president Mauricio Macri (2015-2019), along with Peronist dissidents such as Florencio Randazzo – deputy and former Minister of the Interior – and former senator Miguel Ángel Pichetto could have a place in his Government due to the support received in the second lap.
The leader of A Liberdade Avança defeated this Sunday the current Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, who obtained 44.3% with 55.69% of the votes in the second round of the presidential elections.
Source: TSF
