The President maintained that “there is an anti-boycott clause, because the unions may want to block it. If only one person wants it, he can keep it.”
President Javier Milei said that in the Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU) that he signed this week “we give the possibility for State companies to be public,” he asked “why do we have to support Public TV when we have children dying of hunger “and assured that “all state companies must be closed.”
“In the DNU we convert all State companies into Public Limited Companies and they can be privatized and there is the possibility of them being handed over to the employees,” said the President in an interview that was broadcast on Channel 13.
In that context, he maintained that “there is an anti-boycott clause, because the unions may want to block it. With only one who wants it, he can keep it” and explained that “it happened to us with the Aerolíneas case that a union member in a rude and “arrogant, he didn’t like the proposal.”
“I don’t think this is the case for the majority of workers, the problem is the political management of Aerolíneas,” he said.
Javier Milei assured that “all State companies must be closed. The State has no reason to participate in the economy” and added: “Why do we have to support Public TV when we have children dying of hunger.”
“The other day those from Télam were angry. Well, we can give the company to the people and let them manage it, let’s see what they do,” he said.
On the other hand, he maintained that Channel 7 “was used as a propaganda mechanism” and stated that “75 percent of the political discussion on that channel was to smear a candidate, regardless of whether it was me. It’s not good, it takes us back.” to the worst moments”.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Security, Patricia Bulrich, who shared the interview with the President, stated that “Télam only operates in Argentina and has more employees than Reuters around the world.”
“Reuters, the most important company that still exists as an agency, has 200 workers around the world. Télam has more than 1,000 in a single country,” she said without giving details or sources of the figures she stated. “Today the agency is Twitter,” said the official when comparing the state news agency with the social network, which is currently called X.
In that context, she believed that this social network “is much more important than having a state agency.”
“All the important agencies closed,” Bullrich highlighted and mentioned among them the agency Diarios y Noticias (DyN), which closed in 2017 during the government of Mauricio Macri when she was also Minister of Security, and the Noticias Argentinas agency (NA). , which remains active and this year celebrates 5 decades in office.
“All the private agencies closed DyN, NA, the agencies no longer exist, the only one that exists is the State one,” said Patricia Bullrich.