The Government fills senior positions with “outsiders” and tests a new adjustment plan

The National Institute of Technology (INTI) is one of the entities subject to the plans of the Minister of Deregulation, Federico Sturzenegger. After the displacement of the dome in August 2025, La Libertad Avanza took advantage of the vacuum created by the chainsaw and the freezing of competitions to place 15 officialsmostly without background or career in the organization. The organization did not comment when asked by this media.

The last landing occurred weeks ago with the appearance of the vice president, Ezequiel Capelli, a kidney man of the Minister of the Interior, Diego Santilli. Currently self-employed, according to his Linkedin, he was general director of trees in the City, undersecretary of maintenance of public space under the management of the PRO and director of the Central Market until August 2025.

Since the beginning of the administration last December, INTI’s payroll was reduced from 3,120 to 2,318 employees, 25.7% less. Now, the order is to close the legal metrology directorate and the INTI certification body as of January 31, with more than 150 technicians and professionals, to transfer functions to laboratories and private organizations.

In that line, The Metrology manager, Héctor Laiz, considered an “eminence” was displaced in January in methodology in Argentina and a technical reference worldwide. Instead, they targeted Javier Alfredo Funes, with no experience in the area.

The changes began in September with the appointment of the new president, Miguel Romero, linked to the Secretary of Industry, Pablo LavigneLuis Caputo’s man. Without experience at INTI, the lawyer and public auctioneer He was legal advisor to the Ministry of Economy, Agriculture and Production between 2009 and 2020, and undersecretary of Consumer Defense in the current administration.

His predecessor and former Toyota -now hired by Mercedes Benz- cut 800 positions during his administration and He slammed the door in August, dissatisfied with Decree 462, which converted the autonomous institute into an appendix of Industry, as part of a plan to eliminate areas and deepen layoffs. But Congress stopped the DNU and the government had to back down.

The Secretary of Tourism, Daniel Scioli also has a close friend on the boardalthough since April of last year. It is the administrative director, Christian Rasmussen, remembered at the institute for urgently leaving through a window of the organization due to the unrest of the staff, after announcing massive layoffs in May 2024, as human resources manager.

Rasmussen has trench jumping experienceSince 2015, he was the nighttime director of the former Macrista mayor of Pilar, Nicolás Ducoté, candidate for councilor of Florencio Randazzo in 2017, national director of real estate services of the State Property Administration Agency with Alberto Fernández, and aspired to govern Pilar when Scioli ran for President in 2023.

More recent was the rise of Juan Pablo Intelisano, presented by Romero in work meetings as the “chief of staff”, a position that does not exist in the INTI structure. Intelisano was head of the receipts desk of the Ministry of Agriculture between 2010 and 2017, and now – according to what they say inside – located his brother Matías Intelisano at the head of the regional management of the technological organization.

The brothers share a common path: none of them had a career in the field of engineering, industry and technology. The brand new regional manager was inspection coordinator of the general directorate of administration of the undersecretary of administrative management of the Ministry of Tourism and Sports under the management of Matías Lammens.

Romero appointed Arturo Abriani as legal affairs manager, after holding a similar role at the airport regulatory body (ORSNA). The operational direction was held by Daniel Loiacono, a former director of the UIA, and the Planning and Marketing direction was held by Facundo Durand.former director in the Children’s Secretariat in charge of the minister Sandra Petovello, and former undersecretary of Public Space Maintenance with the former mayor of the PRO and now head of the Immigration Security Agency, Diego Valenzuela.

The Government also took back the chainsaw at the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA)where since Javier Milei took office the workforce went from 6,825 employees to 6,073, a reduction of 752 people (-11.0%). After the failed attempt to eliminate its autonomy and modify its board with greater weight from the State, the organization chaired by Nicolás Bronzovich works in a voluntary retirement plan starting in March.

The proposal circulating in the halls consists of the payment of 1.5 salaries per year worked to all employees up to 60 years old who resign, a significant improvement over the previous plan (1.2 salaries with a limit of 20 years of seniority and half a salary for those with more than 20 years). Thus, a 60-year-old employee with 30 years of seniority would take 15 additional salaries. “They are more desperate,” said an agency source.

The other plan that was discussed this Thursday in the board of directors is the sale of the Parque Leloir experimental station, a 27,000 hectare piece of land owned by INTA in Ituzaingówhere urban and family agriculture tasks are carried out with seed programs. In December, a land in Palermo was sold for US$18.5 million to developer Brukman Mansilla. 70% of the value was going to be allocated to INTA, but the Apinta union claims that it is not yet reflected in the budget.

Since mid-December, the organization hired 8 managers with temporary appointments, without holding competitions. Human resources was in charge of the consultant Sebastian Ibarra. According to people who know him, he would be a distant relative of the former Minister of Modernization, Aníbal Ibarra, an area where he worked during Mauricio Macri’s administration, after being an HR advisor in the Buenos Aires government. Also He was national secretary of Content Training of the MID, a movement whose reference is the governor of Entre Ríos, Rogelio Frigerio.son of the founder of the party.

Bronzovich appointed the public relations graduate as general director of Administration, Gustavo Abaurreaa former coordinator of PAMI agencies since the administration of Mauricio Macri who He arrived at the organization at the end of 2024 at the hands of Juan Pazoformer head of ARCA and Caputo’s man.

The other incorporations were Claudio Dobniewski, (systems and technology coordinator), Ariel Star (development and data architecture management), Gustavo Tesei (national operational coordination), Diego Nicolas Ponsone (logistics and services management), Héctor Rodríguez (purchasing management) and Solange Costoya (organizational design, selection and career development management).

Finally, the National Highway Directorate, in charge of the construction and maintenance of routes, established a voluntary retirement plan with the payment of up to 90% of a salary per year with a maximum of 24 years old, and the payment from 1 to 8 installments depending on the amount of the asset (from up to $10 million to more than $30 million). The objective is to reduce between 10 and 20% of the plant of 4,950 employees, close to 1,000 positions, according to official sources.