Overview
- During a nearly two-hour speech, Javier Milei traded shouts with opposition lawmakers and said Cristina Fernández de Kirchner would remain in prison, calling kirchnerist legislators “thieves” and “delinquents.”
- He announced that each ministry has prepared 10 reform packages and set a plan to submit new proposals every month, including forthcoming changes to the Civil and Commercial codes and a tax overhaul.
- He touted what he described as the first deficit-free budget and cited security figures such as a 17% national drop in homicides, a 65% fall in Rosario homicides, and a 20% reduction in robberies in 2025.
- He broadened his attacks to segments of the business sector, invoking figures such as Paolo Rocca and Javier Madanes Quintanilla while accusing subsidized industry and “prebendary” entrepreneurs of complicity in past corruption.
- He did not mention the repatriation of gendarme Nahuel Gallo during the address but later told TV that “the important thing is that he is back,” and, in a separate case, police arrested Hugo Alejandro Barroso as the second suspect in the Moyano murder.