Milei Holds First Meeting with New Cabinet

President Javier Milei held his first meeting with the new cabinet, which features Manuel Adorni as Chief of Staff, Pablo Quirno as Foreign Minister, and Diego Santilli at the Ministry of the Interior. Following a weekend of structural changes, the president met today with the new team designed to lead the second stage of his administration, with Manuel Adorni taking the helm as Chief of Staff, Pablo Quirno as the new Foreign Minister, and Diego Santilli leading the Ministry of the Interior. In his debut as a coordinating minister, Adorni described the meeting as 'spectacular' after the exchange, stating that the president outlined the guidelines for the second phase of his administration to his team. 'I'm not ruling anything out, but there is a vision of where we need to go,' he told accredited reporters. This marked the official debut of the new cabinet announced over the weekend and defined to tackle the second half of the term, with a focus on second-generation reforms. 'I spoke with many governors, not all of them, and I couldn't get back to everyone,' the new minister revealed as he left. In turn, he did not rule out a new call for governors that would also include Peronists, and emphasized his 'capacity for dialogue.' 'If we are going to talk about lowering taxes, supporting a May Pact that has to do with the future of Argentines, we agree,' he added. The novelty was the presence of photographer Walter Carrera in the ante-chamber to photograph each of the attendees, except for presidential advisor Santiago Caputo, who avoided the flashes. In the Eva Perón Hall of the Casa Rosada, the eight ministers and the Chief of Staff met with the president and the secretaries Karina Milei (General Secretariat of the Presidency) and María Ibarzabal Murphy (Legal and Technical) during a meeting that lasted a little over an hour and forty minutes. Also attending were Sandra Pettovello (Human Capital), Pablo Quirno (Foreign Relations), Diego Santilli (Interior), Luis Caputo (Economy), Patricia Bullrich (Security), Luis Petri (Defense), Mariano Cuneo Libarona (Justice), who arrived a few minutes late, and the head of the Central Bank, Santiago Bausili. The silence is notable, but it reflects the discomfort he had accumulated against his coordinating minister, whom he accuses of not having acted correctly in the internal conflict facing the vertices of the so-called 'Iron Triangle.' After a weekend of intense changes, the Executive Branch presents the team with which it seeks to achieve the necessary consensus to approve the Budget, modernize labor legislation, lower taxes, and toughen the Criminal Code.