Argentina’s ruling libertarian party will have to “make some kind of concessions” to overcome an “extremely fragmented” congress as it pursues President Javier Milei’s radical reform agenda, the new leader of the country’s lower house has said.
“It’s the most ambitious package of measures in our history, so naturally some will prosper more easily than others,” Martín Menem, a legislator from Milei’s La Libertad Avanza (LLA) coalition who assumed the presidency of the lower house on Sunday, told the Financial Times in an interview.
“We will have to make some kind of concessions where possible, but always with the sole objective of advancing the president’s plan and ending Argentina’s decline. We won’t negotiate on the ideas.”