Argentina’s president, Alberto Fernández, announced that the current Minister of Territorial Development and Habitat, Jorge Ferraresi, will leave his post on November 1 and will be replaced by the current Secretary of Housing, Santiago Maggiotti.
“Ferraresi will return to his beloved Avellaneda on November 1 to resume management at the head of the municipality,” the president said on social networks.
Ferraresi, who was mayor between 2009 and 2020 of the Buenos Aires municipality of Avellaneda, will return to that city to regain his position, as Fernández confirmed after meeting on Sunday with the minister still to analyze housing and habitat policies carried out by him. administration.
The Ministry of Housing has so far delivered more than 60,000 properties, while another 140,000 are under execution.
Furthermore, “70,000 loans were granted and thousands of housing solutions were managed,” Fernández described as he urged the new administration to maintain “the same dynamism.”
Once the ministerial reshuffle in the Territorial Development portfolio is formalized, only five of the 21 ministers who started at the start of the current administration in December 2019 will remain.
The announcement comes ten days after Raquel Kelly Kismer de Olmos, Victoria Tolosa Paz and Ayelén Mazzini took office as the new ministers of Labour, Social Development and Women, Gender and Diversity.
Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers, Juan Manzur, also announced that he would leave his post next year to run as vice-governor in the elections of his province, Tucumán (in the northwest).
Most of the resignations or dismissals that have occurred in recent months in Fernandez’s government were due to tensions between the president and the vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, over the direction of the administration.
