In a ceremony that brought together the cream of the political caste, Diego Santilli was sworn in this Monday as the new Chief of Staff of the Nation in the White Hall of the Casa Rosada. The event, led by Javier Milei, was attended by 13 governors and a multitude of PRO officials, in a snapshot that reflects the forced marriage between the ruling party and old politics.
Santilli, until yesterday Minister of the Interior, takes over after the departure of Manuel Adorni, who left the post cornered by an investigation into illicit enrichment. According to the allegations, Adorni could not justify a jump in assets, hid half a million dollars in alleged undeclared cryptocurrency savings, accumulated properties, and made exorbitant cash expenditures, such as a set of sheets worth 8 million pesos. Despite the scandal, Adorni was present at the swearing-in and hugged effusively with Milei and Santilli, in a display of the impunity that reigns in the regime.
Santilli’s arrival is not a renewal, but a rescue. His career is that of a true eternal inhabitant of the caste: he began in Buenos Aires Peronism in the 1990s, joined macrismo in 2003, and since then has held positions as legislator, Minister of Environment in the City of Buenos Aires, national senator, deputy head of the Buenos Aires government, national deputy, and Minister of the Interior. His father, Hugo Santilli, was part of menemismo and president of River Plate. None of that mattered when Milei accused him of being corrupt: «There is no one who does not say he is corrupt. He is the one whose birthday party was paid for with yours,» the president said about Santilli. But today, in need of political oxygen, Milei welcomes him with open arms.
Santilli had already forged strong ties with the governors during his tenure in the Interior, being key to securing the votes of Peronist leaders like Jaldo and Jalil in legislative votes. Ahead of the swearing-in, he met privately with most of the governors to discuss funds, public works, and the governability of a regime increasingly battered by crises and scandals.
The departure of Adorni and the entry of Santilli are nothing more than a fuse to preserve the project of adjustment and surrender. While the government loses credibility and approval, the caste takes refuge in the Casa Rosada to continue plundering the country with impunity. Santilli’s swearing-in is proof that Milei’s regime depends more and more on the old foxes of politics to sustain itself, while advancing in the looting and surrender of national resources.
para mi santilli es lo mismo q adorni pero con otra cara la casta se abraza al poder mientras los laburantes la sufrimos siempre se llenan la boca de libertad pero nos arruinan indignazion total firmado peroncho77
Para mí, esto es un golazo. Santilli es el tipo duro que necesitamos para limpiar la Rosada de zurdos. Milei suma aliados de verdad, no como los kirchos que lloran afuera. La casta K quedó en el pasado, ahora festejamos con orden y huevos. Basta de lloriqueo, a laburar.