The suspension of the official guideline for the media is official: all the details

On the way to continue with the adjustment in the State, President Javier Milei made official the suspension of the official guideline for a period of one year. He did so through Decree 89/2023 published this Wednesday in the Official Gazette with his signature and that of the Chief of Staff, Nicolás Posse.” Institutional advertising and communication campaigns carried out by the Central Administration shall be suspended for a period of ONE (1) year from the publication of this decree”, establishes Article 1 of the new decree of Milei.And it states that “the enforcement authority may, by duly founded act and whenever the circumstances make it appropriate, extend the suspension.” The decree exempts from the suspension “acts of official publicity whose obligatory nature arises from current regulations, as well as campaigns that result from cases of force majeure or duly justified specific communication needs that may occur.” In the preamble, the Executive Branch justified the decision by pointing out that “in the current circumstances it is appropriate to suspend the carrying out of non-essential campaigns with the dual objective of adapting structures and procedures and making spending more efficient.” Consequently, it is appropriate to discriminate, in relation to the publicity of government acts, those in which it is necessary, from those in which it can be omitted following criteria of opportunity and convenience,” states the Decree signed by the President and his Chief of Staff, Nicolás Posse.La decision to put an end to the advertising campaign had been announced by Milei throughout the electoral campaign and then ratified by the presidential spokesman, Manuel Adorni, two days before the inauguration when he announced the reduction of the state structure and the decision to cancel the contracts of the personnel who took office during 2023.La measure had also been advanced by the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo. The government’s expenditures in this area represented 34,000 million pesos in advertising advertising from the Presidency and the ministries during 2023, according to Caputo in the official presentation of the package of economic measures

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