The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, launched a "chainsaw plan" in the style of Javier Milei in Argentina. This Thursday, the Ecuadorian president announced a 41% reduction in the number of entities dependent on the Presidency of the Republic, through a restructuring plan that includes mergers and layoffs, which takes effect immediately following the signing of a presidential decree.
Carolina Jaramillo, the official spokesperson for the Government, reported at an urgently convened press conference on the dismissal of employees and the integration of state agencies, with the goal of optimizing the government structure and accelerating procedures in public administration.
"With this reorganization of ministries and secretariats, ministries go from 20 to 14, and secretariats go from nine to three," she detailed. According to Jaramillo, the country is immersed in a process of state modernization, which involves the dismissal of 5,000 employees from the public sector.
"The idea is about efficiency, having a state that provides quality public services, and in this sense, the elimination of these 5,000 positions initiates a transition process because in the coming months a process will open in which new positions will be created for young people who want to participate and who want to join public service," she stated.
