Guillermo Ferraro, appointed on 10 December 2023 by Javier Milei to lead the ministry, was removed on 26 January 2024 through a presidential decree for having leaked confidential information regarding the administration.[4][5] Following this, president Milei decided to abolish the ministry, moving to the status of undersecretariat.[6]
The dissolution of the Ministry and the absortion of its competencies by the Ministry of Economy was officially announced by the government on 23 February 2024.[2]
Before the election of Javier Milei, the areas of public works, transport and housing each had their own ministry within the Government of Argentina. Communications were already the responsibility of a secretariat. During his campaign, Milei promised to reduce the number of existing ministries and create two new ministries which would bring together several areas of public life: Human Capital and Infrastructure. The latter can be considered as the merging of the ministries of Public Works, Transport, and Territorial Development and Habitat.[7]
On 10 December 2023, on his very first day as President of Argentina, he modified the law through a Necessity and Urgency Decree and reduced the previous 19 government ministries to nine.[8] As stipulated in the presidential decree, the Ministry of Infrastructure must enable the government "to optimize public works, housing, communications and transport policies".[8] The same day, Guillermo Ferraro was then appointed head of the ministry.[9] An accountant and a former executive for KPMG Argentina, he was part of the libertarian president's campaign team and comes from the private sector like other members of the cabinet led by Nicolás Posse.[10]
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