PRESIDENT OF ARGENTINA ANNOUNCED HIS CABINET.
“It is the third time that I participate in the preparation of a Cabinet and I am very happy for the result we have achieved. Everyone has worked with me and I know the technical quality of those who accompany me, ”said the President- elect at the beginning of the press conference in the Puerto Madero neighborhood of the City of Buenos Aires.
• Santiago Cafiero will go to the Chief of Staff. It is a grandson political scientist of a recognized Peronist leader, Antonio Cafiero.
• The Foreign Minister is another relevant role. Felipe Solá, a Peronist who was confirmed in this position several days ago. Thus, before assuming, the Frente de Todos has already publicly repudiated the coup d'état in Bolivia, marked distance with the Macri Government.
• The Ministry of Economy will be directed by Martín Guzmán. It is one of the most important portfolios of the nation considering the difficult moment that the population is going through and the debt that must be faced with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), inherited from Macri.
• The head of the Central Bank will be Miguel Angel Pesce, who already held the vice presidency of the entity during Kirchnerism between 2004 and 2015. He will face the monetary disaster that collapsed to the country during the management of Cambiemos.
• In the Ministry of Productive Development, one of the pillars in the economic plan of the future Government, Matías Kulfas was confirmed.
• Interior Ministry will have Eduardo 'Wado' from Pedro, a renowned Kirchner activist.
• Health and Environment will be in charge of Ginés González García, a renowned doctor who was already a minister during the Governments of Eduardo Duhalde and Néstor Kirchner.
• Housing will be led by María Eugenia Bielsa, who in 2003 was the first vice governor of the province of Santa Fe. She is the sister of another important political leader, Rafael, and the prominent football coach Marcelo Bielsa.
• In Public Works will be Gabriel Katopodis, mayor of the San Martin party, Province of Buenos Aires.
• The Ministry of Defense will be occupied by Agustín Rossi, who knew how to lead the Kirchnerist bench in Congress.
• In Security will be the anthropologist Sabrina Frederic.
• Ministry of Social Development will be directed by Daniel Arroyo, who will announce a plan to eradicate hunger in the country.
• Marcela Losardo was appointed in the Ministry of Justice, who is expected to make major reforms to avoid "judicial and media operations," according to the comments of the president-elect.
• In the Ministry of Labor, another of the sensitive areas for a country with at least 10.2% unemployment, will be in charge of Claudio Moroni.
• The Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity, a new portfolio, will be for Elisabeth Gómez Alcorta, a human rights defender who stood out for representing a detained leader without a firm conviction, Milagro Sala.
• In Transportation the person in charge will be Mario Meoni, figure of the Renovating Front, a party that joined the Front of All to unify Peronism before the October elections.
• The rector of the Metropolitan University for Education and Work (UMET), Nicolás Trotta, whose house of study is characterized by its progressive inclination, was appointed in the Ministry of Education.
• In addition, Luis Basterra will manage Agriculture, another office relevant to a nation that exports raw materials and has the urgent need to add dollars with its sales abroad, mainly thanks to soy. Basterra, meanwhile, is an agronomist and was a deputy for the province of Formosa since 2011.
• On the other hand, Culture will remain in the hands of the filmmaker Tristán Bauer, and Science and Technology, a sector that Fernández promised to strengthen after the cuts applied in the management that precedes him, will be commanded by Roberto Salvarezza, a deputy who directed the National Council of Scientific Research and Techniques between 2012 and 2015.
• Sports will go to Matías Lammens, president of the San Lorenzo de Almagro football club and recent candidate for governor of the capital, while Francisco Meritello will be the brand new secretary of Public Media. This is a former director of the October Group, a conglomerate of progressive media, such as Page 12 and the AM 750 radio.
• The Secretary of Environment and Sustainable Development will be in charge of Juan Cabandié, a Peronist militant son of disappeared during the last military dictatorship.
• For his part, the former head of the Anti-Corruption Office Julio Vitobello will be the new general secretary of the Presidency. In turn, the Legal and Technical Secretariat will be under the command of Vilma Ibarra, lawyer and sister of Aníbal Ibarra, the former head of government of the capital deposed in a political trial after the Cromañón tragedy, where 194 young people died from a fire during A rock concert in 2004.
Everyone will have the difficult task of assuming the leadership of the South American country in the midst of the crisis. The latest report of the National Institute of Statistics and Census showed that 35.4% of the population was in poverty during the first half of the year under the mandate of Macri.
With this team, Fernández will begin his period of Government starting next December 10 for a period of four years.