After the approval of the 2026 budget The government went into a break of sorts until Monday, January 5thwith some civil servants starting short holidays or ministers setting out details for foreign trips in the first days of January. Yes, it would be released in the last week of the year a momentous decree: the first salary increase for senior civil servants as far as administration is concerned Javier Milei which responds to an old complaint from the Cabinet and at the same time tries to block the withdrawal of “technicians” from the state.
As this newspaper reported, ahead of the Christmas toast called by the President in Olivos, a key minister rejoiced at a “soon” salary adjustment that would allow to skip income gaps of lower-level ministers and secretaries who have been increasing their salaries since December 2023. “Toto (Caputo) complains that his technical teams are leaving”said a cabinet colleague Clarion and he announced that within the week the decree would be published in the Official Gazette to apply the January salary increases.
Today a minister earns money 3 million pesos and there are secretaries who earn an income of just over 2 million, similar to that of, for example, a bank employee. The Ministry for Deregulation and State Transformation is responsible for the details of the change Federico Fallenegger.
The granting of a salary increase is analyzed which would go from 60 to 100 percent, but would be applicable in three sections to try to minimize the possible social bad mood that the measure would create. “Many civil servants were lost and since there were no increases, civil servants with better salaries were transferred to state-owned companies such as YPF, Correos or AYSA,” said another qualified official source.
However, in the last week of 2025, the executive branch will find itself in something of an impasse. There are ministers like Mariano Cuneo Libarona, of justice, who had been expecting to travel to Germany for several weeks to complete his doctoral thesis. Another cabinet member will travel to an Asian country in the first days of January on a kind of “official mission” and at the invitation of a foundation. Other officials have used the holidays to take a few days’ vacation, while some, like the new interior minister, Diego SantilliDon’t rule out taking a weekend off.
Unlike the first two years of the Libertarian government, this time the head of state relaxed the suggestion to his closest aides not to travel abroad to rest. However, most of the senior officials interviewed chose to keep the destinations chosen for their vacations in the background.
There are areas that “A short week“They will continue their administration without changes in Balcarce 50, as stated in the communication from Javier Lanari and the Ministry of the Interior, Diego Santilli: In both cases they hope that the appointments move forward, a fundamental step to make the structure of both agencies official. In principle, for example, there will be no “political table” of the executive branch in the further course of 2025.
Milei canceled a “gratitude visit” to La Rioja, the homeland of the President of the Chamber of Deputies, for Tuesday the 30th. Martin Menemjust like weeks ago in Córdoba. On this day he will be in his office at Casa Rosada, where he will give an interview to a well-known foreign media outlet.
The president has just planned a trip abroad January 18th or 19th, if you start your trip to the Swiss city of Davos, where he will be one of the exhibitors at the World Economic Forum. Nor would he, as speculated, go to a spa on the Atlantic coast with his sister Karina in the first month of the year. LLA says they will not resume partisan activities until mid-February.
Yes, the party led by the Secretary General of the Office of the President could make its debut in the first month of 2026 a headquarters in downtown Buenos Aires, at 700 Córdoba Avenue. Until now, the party meetings have taken place in the offices on the first floor of the government building or at Karina herself at the LLA headquarters in CABA on Avenida de Mayo.
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