After his initial exposurethe chief of staff Manuel Adorni He faced the questions that, with different levels of tension, the different opposition groups had prepared. Faithful to the predetermined script, repeated like a mantra that the accusations about his alleged increase in assets are the subject of a Justice investigation, but that did not prevent the most critical opponents from They insisted on putting their finger on the sore.
“Today you do not have the confidence of Congress, society, or your cabinet. For many you are a burden, a necklace of melons. And for society your word is worth zero,” he questioned. German Martinezhead of the Peronist bloc of Unión por la Patria, who anticipated that his bench will try to motorize Adorni’s interpellation to promote a motion of censure to remove him from office.
This is a mechanism established in article 101 of the National Constitution through which Congress can dismiss the chief of staff and to the ministers if the blocks that activate it get a absolute majoritythat is, half plus one of the members of the body.
“I want to remind you that a Chief of Staff has never been dismissed by this mechanism since the figure was instituted”Adorni replied when it came to responses. “So it is clear that your interest is not to preserve institutional functioning, but to destabilize the Government,” he added.
Adorni was undaunted.. Nor did he make any gesture when Myriam Bregman (Frente de Izquierda) joked about his financial situation.
“There is a popular joke, which says that you are like aloe vera, every day more properties are discovered,” Bregman began. “It’s not funny, because you made fun of journalists, people with disabilities and so many others as your way of acting. If you are so cocky, why did you have to come accompanied by President Milei and his sister??”
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The opponents did not limit themselves to asking him about his financial situation; They also goaded Adorni about the complaints, also under judicial investigation, regarding the alleged $LIBRA cryptocurrency scam and the surcharges in the National Disability Agency (Andis). They also criticized the non-application of emergency disability and university financing laws, among other issues.
“Did you know Mauricio Novelli (who facilitated, as an intermediary with the Milei brothers, the $LIBRA project)? What were the reasons for the more than 16 authorized meetings at Casa Rosada and Quinta Presidencial de Olivos during 2024 and 2025? -he launched Maximiliano Ferraro (Civic Coalition) -. “You may choose silence, but you will not be able to prevent us from continuing to ask questions until Justice decides to investigate power.”
“How is it possible that they do not comply with the university financing law, voted five times by this Congress?”, he urged, for his part, Nestor Pitrola (Worker’s Party).
From Union for the Homeland, Lucia Camporahe insisted on the topic. “I don’t know which university they studied at to issue a decree to not comply with a law. What planet do they live on? They know that teachers saw 40 percent of their purchasing power cut. 10,000 teachers and scientists already resigned at the time when you, Adorni, traveled to Aruba and Punta del Este and bought two apartments,” he said.
“You cannot simulate a normal management report, but you must give explanations. We are not interfering in your judicial cases, but rather gathering elements to define whether you are suitable for the position,” he insisted. Juan Marinoalso from Unión por la Patria. “How do you plan to pay the mortgages and debts you contracted to pay for your last apartment? If you earned $3.5 million as a civil servant for two years, how do you explain it?”
One of the most tense passages was carried out by the deputy Pablo Juliano (United Provinces) when he called the coordinating minister on a first-name basis to demand explanations. Obfuscated, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Martín Menem, warned him that he would cut off his ability to speak.
“We are seeing that the burden of proof is reversed, that whoever has to be the fuse of a government makes his entire government come together to support him in Congress. What is happening to us here today is strange, because it is the confirmation of what you announced in the campaign: that Adorni is Milei. That is coming true,” Juliano ironically said. “Today you embody a new fraud. Do you know what the only question you have is? What are you waiting for to give up?”challenge.
For its part, Rodolfo Tailhade (Unión por la Patria) reproached Adorni for his wife’s trips and use of custody Betina Angeletti. When it was his turn to respond, Adorni seemed upset, especially because the opposition deputies mentioned his wife’s movements, as if “they had spied on her”.
“His wife has police custody since you assumed the spokesperson. She uses it to go to the manicure, to take her children to school or to go to Fernetería, a trendy bar. It is clear that the Chief of Staff should inform us, even if he has any notice of judicialization, why he showered his wife, Betina Julieta Angeletti, with privileges,” Tailhade questioned.
