Javier Milei fired the Minister of Infrastructure, Guillermo Ferraro

The former Minister of Infrastructure, Guillermo Ferraro

Less than two months after taking office, Javier Milei fired the first member of his Cabinet. The Minister of Infrastructure, Guillermo Ferraro, left his position. As Infobae learned, the reason is that he leaked confidential information from the libertarian administration.

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The measure was a formal request for the resignation of the Chief of Staff, Nicolás Posse, and although it is not yet known who will replace him, the idea is that the Ministry will be reduced to the rank of secretariat, which will remain dependent on who until now was his counterpart. of Economy, Luis “Toto” Caputo.

At the end of September 2023, after having won the PASO, but before the setback in the general elections, the then presidential candidate Javier Milei publicly named Guillermo Ferraro for the first time, who had joined the team a few weeks before.

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The leader, with extensive experience in public service during different governments, had been approached by the party leader’s sister, Karina Milei, to La Libertad Avanza, and during the last stretch of the campaign he was in charge of organizing the inspection operation. of the votes.

In a period of strong changes in the structure of the space, he gradually replaced the former national point guard Carlos “Chino” Kikuchi, who until then was the one in charge of that task and who was the one who introduced him to Karina, and then He continued the work when he joined forces with the hard wing of Together for Change, to prevent the theft of ballots.

Javier Milei with the rest of the Cabinet

Once Milei’s resounding victory in the runoff was known, as the President had announced in September, Ferraro was formally appointed as Minister of Infrastructure, one of the 8 portfolios that the Cabinet was going to have during this administration and that would to have the Energy, Transportation, Public Works and Housing, Telecommunications and Mining sectors under its wing.

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However, at the time of taking office things were a little different: firstly, the Ministries ended up being nine, since Health maintained its category, and secondly, it was decided that both Mining and Energy would remain in the hands of the Economy, led by by Caputo.

In this way, Infrastructure was left with the Secretariats of Transportation, where Franco Mogetta joined; that of Public Works, where Luis Giovine arrived; that of Housing and Habitat, in which Héctor Lostri is, and that of Communications and Connectivity, in the hands of Ignacio Cingolani.

Despite having lost several areas, Ferraro still retained two important ones for the Government, such as transportation and public works, since it had to carry out the promotion of private investments and the removal of subsidies.

Likewise, it is not known what will happen to Mogetta, Giovine, Lostri and Cingolani, who could continue with their functions at the Palacio de Hacienda or, on the contrary, also be replaced. Everything is still being analyzed.

Ferraro came to the Executive because he had experience in public-private initiative projects, since between 2017 and 2019 he carried out PPP initiatives for road corridors, in his role as director of KPMG Argentina, a global firm that provides Audit, Tax services. and Consulting.

Infrastructure would remain in the hands of the Ministry of Economy, which would add more power (REUTERS)

Throughout his career, he worked in that company for the last fourteen years and during that period he also worked in the Aconcagua Railway Tunnel (2011-2015), the Chihuido Hydroelectric Power Plant (2015-2018), the cargo port of Ushuaia (2016-2017) and in the Vaca Muerta railway branch and feasibility studies (2016).