2024-04-17 17:55:29
Argentine President Javier Milei, who had made it a point to travel only on commercial flights for the sake of exemplarity and budgetary austerity, will finally have to travel with the presidential plane, for the sake of “security”, announced the Presidency.
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“The president can no longer travel on commercial flights, and the Ministry of Security has sent to the concerned parties a confidential report on the reasons for this recommendation,” presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni said on Tuesday, without further details. .
Javier Milei, president since December, announced, among his first measures along with halving the number of ministries, that he would only travel on airliners in order to save public funds.
In fact, at the Davos Economic Forum, then in Israel, then recently in Texas where he met Elon Musk, the head of state traveled on a commercial flight, with a select committee, not failing to publish on his X account photos of himself in the devices, greeted or applauded by passengers.
The presidency notably trumpeted, on the occasion of the Davos Forum, that the decision to travel by airliner had made it possible to “save some 392,000 dollars” of “the effort of the Argentines”, a “moral duty” according to him.
“No hay plata” (there is no money) is the slogan of the “anarcho-capitalist” president, who has been administering shock therapy of budgetary austerity to the Argentine economy, pathologically indebted and inflationary, for three months. , starting with a massive devaluation (more than 50%) of the peso.
“There is no money, but we must take care of the president,” declared Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, commenting on the decision on the LN+ channel.
The ultraliberal president should a priori use the Boeing 757 “Tango 01”, acquired in 2022, and which the presidency had initially considered transferring to the Air Force.
The announcement comes as Javier Milei canceled this week, officially for security reasons linked to the situation in the Middle East, a planned trip to Denmark, where he was to preside over the signing of the purchase of 24 F fighter planes. -16 Danish.
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