The new president of Argentina's new president, Javier Milei, held the last drawing of the salary he received as a deputy before coming to power. He has also completed his first week in office. week in office, during which he took a number of measures to ease the the critical economic situation.
This was reported by UNN with reference to Todo Noticias and Apnews.
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President of Argentina Yesterday, Argentine President Javier Milei held the last drawing of the salary he received as a deputy received as a deputy before coming to power.
This is my last salary draw as a deputy, because now I have another job
The live broadcast of the of the prank was saved on the Argentine president's Instagram: there you can see the office and attributes of the Argentine president, as well as how Milei, together with a notary randomly selects the winner of the draw among the people who have filled out the filled out a form in advance. The amount of the raffled salary was about 2,500 dollars (or 2.1 million Argentine pesos). The winner was a woman named Veronica Gomez.
First week at work Javier Millais' first week in office
Meanwhile, in the government of Argentina is already talking about tough economic measures: it is planned to to significantly reduce budget expenditures by cutting all unnecessary, according to Miley's criteria, positions of civil servants whom he considers parasites. It should be recalled that before his victory in the second round of elections, Milei promised various structural reforms to support the country, whose inflation reached 160.9% in November.
On the first day of his Miley signed a decree on the reduction of ministries: from 18 to 9.
He also announced inspections of public administration were announced, which will last until the end of 2023 It is also planned to reduce the number of state personnel who are not essential or who not performing activities related to the function of the state.
According to the Argentine Todo Noticias (TN), the Argentine public administration currently employs almost 400,000 people; this number is expected to decrease by 30,000 due to due to non-renewal of contracts.
Another move by was the appointment of his sister, Carina Milei, as secretary general of the of the President.
Despite previous previous refusals to engage with "communist countries," Milei confirmed on Tuesday that his new government will attach "great importance" to its relations with Beijing.
Besides, it is worth note that the Minister of Economy of Argentina Luis Caputo announced the official the official devaluation of the Argentine peso by 54%.
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