Argentine President Javier Milei has fired his labour secretary for overseeing a 48 per cent presidential pay increase last month amid a government austerity drive, in the first scandal to hit the libertarian economist’s administration.
Milei’s gross monthly salary rose from just over 4mn pesos, ($4,700 at Argentina’s official exchange rate) in January to just over 6mn pesos in February.
At the weekend, members of the left-leaning Peronist opposition shared details of a decree mandating the increase that bears the president’s signature.
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