The Argentine president, Javier Milei, withdrew the “privilege” pension that former Argentine vice-president Amado Boudou received until now, a day after having done the same with the president at the time, Cristina Fernández Kirchner, in alleging that this service is “legally incompatible”. with the fact of “having committed crimes in the exercise of public functions”.
“The fact of having been convicted of a crime against public administration in the exercise of her public function, it became unacceptable that she could continue to benefit, directly or indirectly, from privileges from which she was a beneficiary,” Milei’s executive said in a statement.
The government considers this gesture as a “consistency” element in its management and as “logical and reasonable” consequence of “the commission of crimes” “who attack the democratic system, by the one who is in charge of the destiny and administration of the Nation.”
Boudou, vice-president during Cristina Fernández’s second term (2011-2015), He was sentenced to five years and ten months in prisonas well as his disqualification and perpetual ban on holding public officefour in August 2018, for the irregular purchase and sale of a business which printed paper money for the state, the Ciccone intaglio company.
The day before, Milei had ordered the withdrawal of additional pension that former president Cristina Fernández received for her time at the head of the country and the pension of her late husband, former president Néstor Kirchner, believing that the ratification of the agreement conviction against her for corruption does not make him worthy of such payments.
The Argentine government framed the measure known this Thursday within the framework “the mantle of common sense” that President Milei wants to impose on public managementalso calling for “exemplarity”. Since coming to power, the president has emphasized the need to minimize administration and cut spending.
Law to eliminate open primaries
On the other hand, the Argentine government announced that will send to Congress the reform law for electoral strengthening which would eliminate the system of open primariesknown 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 investigation serving only politics and to the detriment of the economy and the time of the Argentines”, declared the spokesperson of the Executive, Manuel Adorni, from the Casa Rosada, seat of the Presidency of Argentina.
Adorni detailed that, only in 2023, PASO “had a cost of 45.445 million pesos (approximately 43,000 euros)“, to historical values of course”, which, he added, “forced Argentines to have to vote three times last year”.
“Since its introduction in 2011, “only ten political groups have held internal elections for the presidential elections, including 40% did not even manage to reach the 1.5% threshold to subsequently participate in the general elections“, he explained.
Likewise, he affirmed that the Government would modify the organic law of political parties “with the aim of improving its representativeness and avoid the famous buffers (political parties which, in practice, have neither structure nor real activity), “whose sole objective is to raise funds”.
“The modification of the political party financing system aims reduce public spending and make transparent the resources received by the parties,” said Casa Rosada, emphasizing that “Argentine society practically lives in a constant electoral campaign.”
More reforms
On the other hand, Adorni announced the removal of taxes for purchases abroada measure that “will come into force from December and aims to allow Argentines to import more products at a better price”, notably those linked to the technological and textile sector“, as is the case in normal countries”, even “when they do not have money to buy a ticket and travel abroad”.
“All this is intended that Argentina is a freer countrycontrary to what the government observed on December 10, when the “Argentina was the third most closed country in the world, behind Sudan and Ethiopia.”concluded.
