The President of Argentina, Javier Milei, has withdrawn the “privilege” pension that the former Argentine vice president Amado Boudou received until now, one day after doing the same with the then president Cristina Fernández Kirchner, alleging that this benefit is “legally incompatible” with the fact of “having committed crimes while exercising public office.”
“The fact of having been found guilty of a crime against public administration in the exercise of her public function, it became inadmissible that she could continue to receive, directly or indirectly, privilege assignments of which she was a beneficiary,” the Milei Executive stated in a statement.
The Government understands this gesture as a “coherence” element in its management and as a “logical and reasonable” consequence of “the commission of crimes “that attack the democratic system, by whoever is in charge of the destiny and administration of the Nation.”
Boudou, vice president during the second term of Cristina Fernández (2011-2015), He was sentenced to five years and ten months in prisonas well as his disqualification and perpetual disqualification from holding public officefour in August 2018, for the irregular purchase and sale of a company that printed paper money for the State, the Ciccone intaglio company.
The day before, Milei ordered the removal of the additional retirement that former president Cristina Fernández had been receiving for her time at the head of the country and the pension derived from her late husband, former president Néstor Kirchner, considering that the ratification of the conviction against her for corruption makes it not worthy of such payments.
The Argentine Government has framed the measure known this Thursday within the “mantle of sanity” that President Milei wants to impose on public managementalso appealing to “exemplarity.” Since coming to power, the president has insisted on the need to reduce administration to a minimum and cut spending.
Law to eliminate open primaries
On the other hand, the Government of Argentina has announced that will send to Congress the Reform Law for Electoral Strengthening that would eliminate the open primary regimeknown as PASO (Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory Primaries), and which will modify the Organic Law of political parties to review their financing system.
“Since its creation, PASO has functioned as a millionaire survey at the service only of politics and to the detriment of the economy and the time of the Argentines,” said the spokesperson for the Executive, Manuel Adorni, from the Casa Rosada, headquarters of the Presidency of Argentina.
Adorni has detailed that, only in 2023, the PASO “had a cost of 45,445 million pesos (about 43,000 euros)at, of course, historical values”, which, he added, “forced Argentines to have to go to vote three times last year.”
“Since its introduction in 2011, “there were only ten political groups that settled internal elections for the presidential elections, of which 40% did not even manage to reach the 1.5% threshold to later participate in the general elections“he explained.
Likewise, he has asserted that the Government will modify the Organic Law of political parties “with the aim of improving its representativeness and avoid the famous rubber stamps (political parties that, in practice, have no real structure or activity), “whose only objective is fundraising.”
“The modification of the financing system of political parties seeks reduce public spending and make transparent the resources received by the parties,” indicated the Casa Rosada, underlining that “Argentine society practically lives in a constant electoral campaign.”
More reforms
On the other hand, Adorni has announced the elimination of taxes for purchases abroada measure that “will come into effect from December and aims to allow Argentines to import more products at a better price, especially those linked to the technology and textile sectoras happens in normal countries”, even “when they do not have the money to buy a ticket and travel abroad.
“All this is intended that Argentina is a freer countryin contrast to what the government found on December 10, when the “Argentina was the third most closed country in the world, behind Sudan and Ethiopia.”has concluded.
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