Why is the President of Argentina staying in a 4 star hotel?

[D.B. Cooper]

The President of a country stays in a 4 star hotel. I think this is very weird, very Third World. I have a feeling he is waiting to get all the bugs left over from the previous administration removed. And also he probably doesn’t want to cross paths / share the elevator with all the ñoquis that will soon be out of work. But if he wants to cut spending he should move into the Pink Palace already. The Hotel Libertador runs about U$D 100 per night.(He's been there four months already) Not to mention the secret service police that has to escort him back and forth every day.

 

[antipodean]

The President of a country stays in a 4 star hotel. I think this is very weird, very Third World. I have a feeling he is waiting to get all the bugs left over from the previous administration removed. And also he probably doesn’t want to cross paths / share the elevator with all the ñoquis that will soon be out of work. But if he wants to cut spending he should move into the Pink Palace already. The Hotel Libertador runs about U$D 100 per night.(He's been there four months already) Not to mention the secret service police that has to escort him back and forth every day.

He’s been paying the hotel out of his own pocket and was living there during the campaign as well. A strange guy with strange preferences it seems…

I suspect he is getting exceptionally low rates at that former Sheraton and grossly dated hotel as it is now getting more free publicity and “prestige” than it could ever otherwise dream of getting.

 

[Jerry Nelson]

Milei is like the average on-the-street Argentine. He's totally oblivious to everything, and everyone, around him.

 

[Maikito]

The President's don't live in the Pink Palace, they live in the Quinta de Olivos. According to some reports, he's moving in by next week or so.

 

[Quilombo]

The hotel isn't even that nice, I used to live near it, it's kinda 90s glory days vibes. Eclectic tastes for an eclectic man

 

[Ries]

Since the definition of noquis is someone who is paid but doesnt show up at work, why would noquis be at either the casa rosada or the quinta olivos? they are all already in mar del plata.

 

[wrangler]

why would noquis be at either the casa rosada or the quinta olivos? they are all already in mar del plata.

Or Miami.

 

[Ries]

All the studies I can find online estimate that the actual number of real noquis is pretty small. Depending on the study, between 200,000 and a million. And most are in government jobs that pay maybe $500USD a month. Milei claims be firingf 30,000 in the next few months.
In terms of actual government expenditures, its not a huge amount, its just one of those things that really irritates conservatives.
Very very few of them make enough to go to MDQ, much less Miami.

 

[sts7049]

400 to 500 million wasted dollars sounds pretty significant in context of Argentina budget

 

[Ries]

400 to 500 million wasted dollars sounds pretty significant in context of Argentina budget

which is why I dont know anyone, Argentine or expat, who is against getting rid of noquis. Firing actual employees who work, however, is a different thing- like the 90% of the employees of the Museo del Hombre, and the literally thousands of other employees who are in line for firing.
Much like the US republicans making sure the IRS is consistently understaffed, so they wont audit rich people. Getting rid of all government employees is a libertarian wet dream, but it has never worked in the real world.