President Javier Milei and his sister Karina tie their political fate to that of Chief of Staff Manuel Adorni, as the Justice system advances in the case where he is accused of alleged illicit enrichment. Despite warnings from his PRO allies that the coordinating minister should be removed from office, the President doubles down and this Saturday takes him to Rosario for Flag Day.
In the midst of the scandal, Adorni will again present his management report in parliament on July 2, while opposition sectors simultaneously try to cook up his interpellation in Congress for that same day. The meeting between the President and the official occurs amid calls for the official’s removal from a large part of the political spectrum. The former spokesperson is embroiled in a judicial storm due to a case in which he is accused of alleged illicit enrichment.
The government created the Migratory Security Program and redefined border control under a security approach. The scheme subordinates civilian areas to federal forces and reinforces surveillance at entry points to the country. The government explicitly links irregular migrants with organized crime.
The Vice President will attend the Flag Day event on Saturday. She will come face to face with the President, whom she has not crossed paths with since March. The Casa Rosada will show the embattled Chief of Staff to express outward support. Javier Milei and Victoria Villarruel will see each other again this Saturday at the Flag Day event to be held in Rosario. The Vice President confirmed her visit, despite the Casa Rosada ratifying that Chief of Staff Manuel Adorni will attend, backed by the President but rejected, among others, by the Senate President.
The President turns a deaf ear to the economic and political crisis caused by the Adorni case, and instead preferred to opine on the controversy over the fake news of the death of Lionel Messi’s father. A new attack on the media and an attempt to ride on the popularity of the captain of the Argentine national soccer team. While his administration deepens its economic stagnation and Chief of Staff Manuel Adorni is under siege by Congress, Javier Milei preferred to opine on the controversy over Florencia Peña and the false news of the death of Jorge Messi, Lionel Messi’s father. The president also used the episode to attack the press and ride on the captain of the Argentine national soccer team.
The former Buenos Aires legislator, expelled from La Libertad Avanza, published an open letter demanding the removal of the Chief of Staff, under investigation for alleged illicit enrichment. Former Buenos Aires legislator and former member of La Libertad Avanza (LLA) Ramiro Marra asked President Javier Milei to fire Chief of Staff Manuel Adorni, under investigation for alleged illicit enrichment. «I ask you to make the right decision,» he said in an open letter shared on his X account.
The National Ports and Navigation Agency resolved the final award after a bidding process without challenges. The consortium will operate the waterway with a promise of a 13.5% reduction in logistics costs and modernization works for foreign trade. The company MSCI maintains the same ratings on Argentina, anticipating that there is no reason to expect an improvement in the local market’s consideration, which would enable the arrival of investment funds that would favor a bullish rally for local stocks.
Despite Luis Caputo’s promise, the manufacturing sector maintains a pessimistic outlook for the coming months, although the supermarket sector’s outlook improves. The Economy obtained a 58% adhesion to the swap of the bond that provides exchange rate coverage, in a tender in which the Central Bank and the FGS are suspected to have entered, two institutions that use this instrument to contain pressure on the currency price. After the government’s allies gave it a week in the Senate, in the Chamber of Deputies doubt remains about what will happen with the session scheduled for next Wednesday. The Adorni case threatens to stall projects that are of great interest to the Casa Rosada, such as the Super RIGI.
According to a UIA study, during May there were mixed results in the monthly comparison that did not offset the accumulated decline. Despite the government’s hyper-optimistic discourse, the economic situation of the sector does not improve. The President picked up the gauntlet of criticism from the Israeli philosopher, who had called his plan to promote AI without regulation «risky.» A new poll raised the scenario of the 2027 elections and gave the ruling party a scare, amid scandals over alleged corruption and the economic crisis. Although in the third week of June food showed a marginal decline, the behavior of meat prices continued to concentrate the largest contribution to the monthly increase in the category.
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