Overview

• During Mirtha Legrand’s Saturday program, journalist Cristina Pérez and actress Valentina Bassi had two tense exchanges over disability policy and corruption investigations.
• Bassi condemned President Javier Milei’s veto of the Disability Emergency Law, arguing it would not add to the deficit and describing a collapse in services with uncertainty about her son’s special schooling.
• Pérez contended that audits uncovered a large share of “fraudulent” disability pensions, citing a 40% figure and casting the process as safeguarding funds for rightful beneficiaries.
• Bassi maintained the reviews were aimed at cutting rather than ensuring transparency, alleging indiscriminate removals that left families without coverage for therapies and medicines.
• Debating judicial performance, Pérez cited activity in the Vialidad case, ongoing Andis inquiries and recent raids tied to a case involving José Luis Espert, while Bassi criticized delays and pointed to the timing of extradition paperwork for Federico Fred Machado.