Overview
- The Office of the President announced that Alejandra Monteoliva will succeed Patricia Bullrich in Security and Teniente General Carlos Alberto Presti will replace Luis Petri in Defense.
- Both appointees are scheduled to take office on December 10, when Bullrich enters the Senate and Petri the Chamber of Deputies.
- Presti, currently Army chief, will leave that post to become the first career military officer to lead the Defense Ministry since Argentina’s return to democracy.
- The government framed the changes as consolidation of its agenda, highlighting Monteoliva’s role in the ‘Doctrina Bullrich’ focused on combating narcoterrorism and criminal organizations.
- Bullrich and Petri publicly welcomed the appointments, while the presidency emphasized maintaining firm, professional and depoliticized security and armed forces.