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Por primera vez en su historia, Argentina no tendrá Ministerio del Interior
Con la asunción de Guillermo Francos como jefe de Gabinete, la cartera más política del Gobierno fue degradada a Secretaría y dependerá directamente del nuevo ministro coordinador. Se trata de un hecho institucional inédito para el país. Un repaso por algunos nombres que ocuparon ese puesto...
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May 28, 2024
With the assumption of Guillermo Francos as Chief of Staff, the most political portfolio of the Government was demoted to Secretariat and will depend directly on the new coordinating minister. This is an unprecedented institutional fact for the country. A review of some names who held that key political position
By Juan Pablo Elverdin
Javier Milei euphorically greets Guillermo Francos, next to Nicolás Posse, in a photo on Saturday in Córdoba, during the celebration of May 25. An image that would advance the new scenario in the national Cabinet. Photo: REUTERS/Leandro Bustamante Gomez
When Monday was passing through its final hours, what was popular until then became official: Nicolás Posse, one of the strongest men and personal friend of President Javier Milei, presented his resignation as Chief of Staff , after several days of rumors. and after a rapid wear and tear with the president.
The departure of Posse brought with it a strong movement in the power organization chart of the Executive: Milei appointed in his place Guillermo Francos , who until yesterday was in charge of the Ministry of the Interior, which from now on was demoted to Secretariat, which will be in charge of Lisandro Catalán, former official during the Government of Alberto Fernández.
Although it may be a purely bureaucratic issue for the functioning of the Government, the demotion of the Interior to the Secretariat is an unprecedented institutional fact in the history of the country.
In practice, the Ministry of the Interior has always been one of the most important portfolios for each Government, since it is in charge of direct relations with the governors . It is considered the most political area, since it must establish relations even with provincial leaders of different political affiliations from the national government. Also, among other things, it has under its purview the organization of elections and emergency management, among other vital issues for the functioning of the Republic.
Since the unification of the Argentine Republic as we know it, each president had his Ministry of the Interior, even those who came to the Casa Rosada through the breakdown of the constitutional order. Justo José de Urquiza and Santiago Derqui, who governed the Confederation without the State of Buenos Aires, also had their “political” minister.
With Argentina unified, Guillermo Rawson was the first official to hold that portfolio under the presidency of Bartolomé Miter between 1862 and 1868.
Over the years, the Ministry of the Interior became increasingly relevant, and the movements in that portfolio usually show the political turbulence of the moment . Thus, President Nicolás Avellaneda, in the turbulent years of the late 1970s, had 5 officials in that portfolio , among which Domingo Faustino Sarmiento stood out , who had been his predecessor at the head of the Executive. National.
Guillermo Francos and Nicolás Posse, in a recent image. Photo: REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian
Julio Argentino Roca took office on October 12, 1880 and, in his 6 years of government, he also had 5 Ministers of the Interior. Roca precisely held that portfolio in the following years during the presidency of Carlos Pelegrini. He was in office for just 9 months, between August 1890 and May 1891.
Future governments also had more than one Minister of the Interior, in line with political years that, in general, were turbulent. We had to wait for the inauguration of Hipólito Yrigoyen in 1916 to glimpse a certain “tranquility” in that portfolio : in the 6 years of the first government of the UCR, Ramón Gómez and Francisco Beiró were the two officials who were in charge of that area.
With the Coup d'état of 1943, several Ministers of the Interior succeeded one another: a total of 7 officials held that portfolio between June 7, 1943 and June 4, 1946, under the governments of Pedro Pablo Ramírez and Edelmiro Farrell.
“Tranquility” to the most political portfolio of the Executive came with the assumption of Juan Domingo Perón , who throughout his first term had Ángel Gabriel Borlenghi as Minister of the Interior , a union leader and socialist leader until the emergence of Peronism. He was minister almost until the end of Perón's second presidency: he resigned on June 29, 1955 and left the country after acts of violence that included the burning of churches during that month. He was replaced by Vice Minister Oscar Albrieu, until the new military coup.
Aníbal Fernández was Néstor Kirchner's Minister of the Interior.
In the following years, another name that would stand out among those who occupied the Ministry of the Interior: Hugo Vaca Narvaja, who was in charge of that portfolio during the last days of the Government of Arturo Frondizi, and was later assassinated during the military dictatorship that he assumed in 1976. One of his sons, Fernando Vaca Narvaja, was one of the founders of the Montoneros group .
After successive governments and institutional coups, with the arrival of Héctor Cámpora to the Government, another name assumed in the Ministry of the Interior that would have a long history in subsequent years: Esteban Righi . Despite less than two months of Campista administration, he is remembered for the historic speech he gave to the Federal Police. “Bebo” was later Attorney General of the Nation during the governments of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner, and resigned in 2012 in the midst of the scandal over the complaints against the then vice president Amado Boudou, who accused the law firm Righi y Asociados of having offered him “ oil” their ties with the Federal Justice of Comodoro Py.
Bernardo Llambí, meanwhile, was Juan Domingo Perón's Minister of the Interior until his death, and one of the 6 that María Estela Martínez de Perón had in the less than two years that she was at the head of the Executive, until the 1976 Coup.
With the return of democracy, Raúl Alfonsín successively appointed three Ministers of the Interior: Antonio Américo Troccoli, Enrique “Coti” Nosiglia and Juan Carlos Pugliese . The “fuse” that is usually that portfolio was exposed during the first term of Carlos Saúl Menem , who took at least two years to stabilize the economy and find some political tranquility. Between 1989 and 1995, there were 6 officials in that area: Eduardo Bauzá, Julio Mera Figueroa, José Luis Manzano, Gustavo Beliz, Carlos Ruckauf and Carlos Vladimiro Corach , who would hold the portfolio until the end of the second Menemist government.
Florencio Randazzo holds the record of having been at the head of the Ministry of the Interior for 8 years.
The case of the Alliance Government can be considered a “rarity”: despite the complexities, the successive changes in the Cabinet and the turbulence of the early end of the mandate, Federico Storani was the only Minister of the Interior that Fernando De la Rúa had. .
After the 2001 crisis, and the weeks of several presidents, where each president still kept the Ministry of the Interior active, the greatest period of “calm” began in that portfolio, since each succeeding Government had only one minister: Aníbal Fernández during Néstor Kirchner's 4 years at the head of La Rosada; Florencio Randazzo in the 8 years of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner; Rogelio Frigerio during the presidency of Mauricio Macri and Eduardo “Wado” De Pedro with Alberto Fernández.
That scenario was broken in less than 6 months of Javier Milei's administration: Guillermo Francos was, at least until the next change in the organizational chart of the Executive Branch, the last Minister of the Interior in Argentine history.
