Axel Kicillof has assured that his administration will not allow Milei to carry out the plan to "liquidate, close or sell" state-owned companies.

The governor of Argentina's Buenos Aires province, Axel Kicillof, on Monday presented a plan for his regional government to take control of state-owned Aerolíneas Argentinas, in the face of plans by the country's president, Javier Milei, to privatize the airline.

In a press conference, Kicillof has assured that his administration will not allow Milei to carry out the plan to "liquidate, close or sell" Aerolíneas Argentinas. "Buenos Aires will not allow it," said the Kirchnerist governor, one of the main political voices against the national government.

"If they plan to liquidate it, they should know that the province will support it," reiterated Kicillof, who announced that the institutional steps will be detailed in the coming weeks, after making this political announcement in which he only clarified his intention to "take these steps."

Among other strategies, the governor explained that they are already in dialogue with the company's workers and with governors of other provinces in Argentina to move forward with this intention of transferring the airline to other owners, with special attention to other smaller provinces that need the state-owned company to a greater extent, since it guarantees their air connectivity.

"It is not true that nobody wants it, the province does want it. Everything depends on the will of the Government," he said, referring directly to the fine print of the national law that seeks the privatization or sale of the company.

He has thus encouraged the Government to abandon its excuses and to provide a solution for the airline, which is "a central instrument" for Argentina's connectivity and development, as well as for territorial equity, representing a source of income and well-being that he has defined as "immeasurable."