September 06th, 2024
1. The President dismissed a petition against the candidacy of Judge Ariel Lijo to the Supreme Court
President Javier Milei dismissed by decree a petition that attempted to stop the nomination of Judge Ariel Lijo to the Supreme Court of the Nation. The decision, which reinforces once again the President’s support for the nomination of the magistrate, was published in the Official Gazette on Wednesday morning. Decree 785/2024 bears the signature of the President and the Minister of Justice, Mariano Cúneo Libarona. In its first article it states: “The petition filed against the request for an Agreement to appoint Dr. Ariel Oscar Lijo to a vacant position in the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, submitted to the Senate by means of message No. 31 of May 27, 2024″ is dismissed as inadmissible. The claim exposing irregularities in the administrative presentation of the list of candidates was formulated by several civil organizations and individuals linked to Justice.
2. President Milei gave a speech before the UIA
President Javier Milei gave a speech this past Monday at the ceremony for Industry Day at the headquarters of the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA). Milei described as “a myth” the idea that industrial development is incompatible with the agro-export sector, and said that it is “a story” that “for a hundred years we have been sold by politics,” according to which a booming economy with industrial growth “had to be achieved by trampling on other sectors” such as the countryside. The president highlighted that the period of greatest Argentine industrial expansion “was during the agro-export model, and not with the failed model of import substitution,” the result of which was that “industry was subordinated to the State with subsidies and tariffs” in a relationship of “vicious tutelage” that “has been dragging on until today.” The consequence of this policy, said Milei, “is that in order to protect industry, the countryside was robbed, and the only thing that this protection generated is an industrial sector addicted to the State. This is one of the roots of the structural economic crises we have been suffering for so many decades.” The Head of State pointed out that “the best industrial policy is to have a good fiscal and monetary policy,” besides “putting an end to inflation, recovering the economic calculation and giving back to the Argentine people the gifts of stability,” since “only if society as a whole is doing well, can industry do well in a sustainable way.”
La Nación: En la UIA, Javier Milei aseguró que los subsidios y los aranceles perjudicaron a la economía
3. Guillermo Francos presented his management report to the Chamber of Deputies
The Chief of Cabinet of Ministers, Guillermo Francos, gave this Wednesday his first report on the management of Javier Milei’s government before the Chamber of Deputies and defended as wins the fiscal balance and the fight against insecurity. He celebrated the approval of the Ley de Bases and the Fiscal Package and highlighted that these measures, together with the DNU 70/23, allowed “Argentina to get out of hyperinflation and all the dangers that were about to be unleashed.” He also stated that the YPF-Petronas agreement was the result of the approval of the RIGI and denied that the government is going to devalue the dollar. The opposition criticized the veto to the new pension mobility formula and strongly questioned the DNU restricting access to public information. The session collapsed after UP left the session venue as a result of the riots outside the Congress.
Ámbito Financiero: Guillermo Francos respondió 2.135 preguntas de diputados: FMI, dólar, salida del cepo y BCRA, entre las principales definiciones
4. The national government established new limits to the Law on Access to Public Information
In a controversial decree, President Javier Milei regulated this Monday the law of access to public information and set new limits to the data that can be requested through this mechanism. The new regulation establishes that the information the State is obliged to provide does not include data that “by its very nature” is “within the private sphere of the official or magistrate, especially when the request intends to enter a typically domestic sphere.” This is a category not provided for by law, a rule that expressly states that “all information generated, obtained, transformed, controlled or guarded” by officials is presumed to be public, and that the “only limitations and exceptions” are those provided for by the law itself. The decision was questioned by various civil society organizations, who assert that “a decree cannot limit access to public information.”
La Nación: El Gobierno estableció por decreto nuevos límites a la ley de acceso a la información pública
5. Kicillof announced an investment regime for the province of Buenos Aires
The Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, together with the province’s Minister of Production, Augusto Costa, announced this week the launching of the Provincial Regime of Strategic Investments. During an event he led in Ituzaingó for the National Industry Day, the Governor clarified: “It is the antipode of Milei’s RIGI. We cannot accept that the only way to receive investments in Argentina is to prioritize the economy and not to add value.” In the same line, he said: “It is a regime that accompanies those who invest to generate more added value to generate quality work, to include new technologies, to increase exports but also to substitute imports. It is a law for economic and industrial development.” According to them, the purpose of Kicillof’s RIGI is to promote investments to create quality jobs and generate more added value; to develop local suppliers and new productive sectors; to facilitate the transfer of technology and diversify the economic matrix; to boost exports and substitute imports; and to reduce territorial imbalances.
La Nación: Axel Kicillof lanzó su propio RIGI con críticas a Javier Milei