The government will sell YPF planes and cars from the official fleet

The presidential spokesman, Manuel Adorni, announced the sale of two YPF planes and cars from the official fleet. In addition, the number of drivers for civil servants will be reduced by 50%. At a press conference at Casa Rosada, the official said that “ending privileges is one of the great objectives” of the national government. Along these lines, he announced the decision to sell two YPF planes “that were used almost exclusively by politics, by the privileged who do not want them to be there anymore.” Also that of reducing by 50% the payroll of civil servants’ drivers and, therefore, a reduction of the official fleet. He added that some of those vehicles will be used by security forces and others will be sold.” The adjustment that we intend to make on the expenses of the policy, only in operating expenses, revolves around 3,000 million dollars per year,” he said. In this context, Adorni revealed another piece of information that, he said, “is a great picture in terms of the privileges” that the government says it wants to end. “The Quinta de Olivos is decorated with some paintings. These paintings have an insurance for which all Argentines paid 2.6 million dollars,” he said. “With a poor Argentina, with 1.3 million destitute children, it’s absolutely irrational,” he said. Then, he ratified the freeze on social plans that are managed by intermediaries. “We want to end the business of poverty. It’s the president’s decision,” he said. And he clarified that this measure does not reach the Universal Child Allowance (AUH) and other direct State allocations.

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