Already transferred to Quinta de Olivos, next Monday 15th Javier Milei will go abroad for the first time as president from Argentina to participate in the 2024 edition of Davos World Economic Forum.
This debate space, which has been meeting since 1971 in the exclusive Swiss Alpine centre, will this year bring together representatives of around a hundred governments, major international organizations and around 1,000 companies, as well as civil society leaders, who will listen for the first time in person who the international press described him in many ways: “eccentric”, libertarian, “anarcho-capitalist” and “ultraliberal”, “ultra-right”, “Mini Trump”.
In the interview given on Sunday to Radio Mitre, after the trip made on Saturday to Antarctica, it was the President himself who confirmed it Between January 15th and 19th I would be “traveling to Davos” to participate in the annual forum and defend his economic plan, strongly opposed by the Kirchnerist opposition and other moderate sectors in the face of his radical attempt to shrink the state and deregulate the economy.
He said of Davos: “we have more than 60 requests for individual interviews, bilateral meetings“We’re obviously doing something new and different.” Despite all the request for bilaterals that Milei actually has before a forum in which, for example, the Frenchman Emmanuel Macron will participate, but not other strong leaders who were used to participating, Clarion You know that at the moment the Presidency’s plans are as follows:
that for now He only intends to give his speech and return to Argentina and not have any more bilaterals., unless a lot of work is done and there are no other “pull side” interviews, a short courtesy meeting and a public photo. This is under construction.
To be in his official speech where he will express everything he has to say.
Milei will leave for Davos on January 15th with a very small entourage composed by his sister Karina Milei, secretary general of the Presidency, and who watches his back 24 hours a day. They will travel, the Chief of Staff, Nicolás Posse, the ministers Luis “Toto” Caputo (Economy) and Diana Mondino (Chancellor), in addition to those designated ambassador to the United States, Gerardo Wertheinwhose nomination document has already been sent to Congress, as mentioned Clarion to be discussed in the extraordinary sessions that will end on January 31st.
The President has unloaded on his ministers the series of bilateral meetings that Mondino, Caputo and Posse will have, both with the public sector and with business representatives.
Although he promised to travel to Israel and the United States as his first foreign destinations if he became president, the local and international agenda limits such desires. Israel is at war. The United States is entering an election year, which however would not prevent Joe Biden from opening the doors of the White House if he wanted it.
The president at the same time slammed the door on Argentina’s participation in the BRICSseeks how to resolve the presence that he does not intend to have in the Unasur and CELAC.
With a strong pragmatic turn and truly learning to govern through the difficulties encountered by the megaDNU and the omnibus law, with which he seeks state reform and deregulation of the economy, Milei will give his speech in Davos in which he agrees with the official pages are as always “an opportunity to reflect on the main challenges that the world is facing, marked by the geopolitical tensions of recent years”, and also dominated by economic trends such as its decarbonisation – and in which the President would like to give signs of change in his initial denialist position – and in artificial intelligence.
But it is also the place where we will debate the economic and human impacts of the last two major wars that the world is experiencing: the one waged by Russia in Ukraine, the one waged by Israel against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
This year’s VIP speakers include Volodymir Zelensky – the Ukrainian president came to Milei’s inauguration on December 10 -; the Nigerian economist and international development expert, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
Source: Clarin
