On the evening of the first round of this year’s Argentine elections, as the coalitions led by Sergio Massa and Javier Milei celebrated the passage to the second round, won by the libertarian, there was an atmosphere at the losers’ headquarters, the candidate for president Patrícia Bullrich and the deputy candidate Luis Petri must have been deeply disillusioned. Seven weeks later, both Bullrich and Petri, both allies of former President Maurício Macri, will be ministers of security and defense in the limited – only eight ministries – government of Milei, whose inauguration is today in Buenos Aires, from 3:30 p.m. .
Add to this the thoroughbred ‘macrista’ Luis Caputo, who will become Minister of Economy, the nerve center of the new government, and we have the dimension of the influence of the Argentine head of state from 2015 to 2019, a moderate liberal. , in the government of Milei, an ultra-liberal. More: the presence in the executive branch of Diana Mondino, in Foreign Relations, of a diplomat who lit the fires in China, Brazil, the US and the Vatican set by the candidate in the campaign by the technocrat Guillermo Ferraro, in Infrastructure, and of the politician – so political that he held a position of trust in the previous Peronist government – Guillermo Francos reveals in Internal Relations that the next Argentine government will have little radicalism. That leaves Mariano Cúneo Libarona, from Justice, and Sandra Pettovello, from the super-ministry of Human Capital (including Labor, Health and Education), two newcomers to politics.
The pure, ultra-liberal, radical and folkloric ‘mileism’ had no place for anyone, at least not in the first echelon, except Victoria Villarruel, the vice president who denies military crimes and was outranked in choosing the heads of Defense and Security. , portfolios in which she supposedly has a say. And Nicolás Posse, Milei’s right-hand man and the next head of the ministerial cabinet. In campaign, El Loco He gave Conan, the deceased dog with whom he communicates through his sister, an interspecies medium, the role of chief advisor. Once in power, Macri will apparently take over Conan’s roles.
“Probably the liberal-libertarian and market anarchist dream of Milei is doomed to become a second Macri regime, forcing us to wait for the inauguration and monitor the political behavior in the neighboring country in search of new conclusions,” wrote Lucas Bastos de Souza, economist at Pontifícia Catholic. University of Goiás, in the Opção newspaper. ‘Milei sold dreams, but woke up sleeping with the enemy, Macri, who is a necessary enemy enemyas the Americans say,” Vinícius Vieira, professor of International Relations at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, told DN.
According to the academic, “Milei’s first economic challenge comes from the fact that the Argentine state is spending more than it can.” ‘Even at the age of tree by raw materialsUnder Kirchnerism, the country did not build up reserves, unlike Brazil during the first Lula governments. That is why Milei will freeze government spending and provoke protests, because Peronism has a lot of trade union, social and, another challenge, parliamentary strength.” However, with the obstacles in the economy, Milei will be better able to make promises in the area of security, to become, as he was asked, a Nayib Bukele, in an allusion to the hardline president of El Salvador. ” says Vieira.
Convertible and passenger bath
Because it is more of an extension of the campaign than a political act, Milei wants to be as eccentric as possible again at the inauguration. He does not want to speak inside the Legislative Assembly, as is customary, but on the terrace; he wants to travel symbolically against the Avenida de Mayo in a Valiant convertible reminiscent of the Cadillac Series 62, bought by Juan Domingo Perón, but to the chagrin of the new president was not available due to bureaucratic problems related to a lack of insurance and a traffic permit; and plans to get out of the car in the middle of Avenida 9 de Julio and give himself into the arms of the crowd.
To this end, Milei will employ an impressive security apparatus, consisting of four armed forces: the Federal Police, the National Gendarmerie, the Naval Prefecture and the Airport Security Police, as well as a mixed body of military and civilian personnel.
The ceremony will begin at 3:30 PM in Lisbon, with a stop half an hour later at the Metropolitan Cathedral for a religious celebration, followed by greetings to foreign representatives. After the gala dinner, Milei will watch the film, according to the daily La Nación Mrs Butterfly, the same scenario and the same spectacle in which he was ridiculed on the eve of the second round of elections that he would ultimately win. The president also asked to play a tango by Astor Piazzola at the end – Ballade Para Un Loco. The party of El Locohowever, it will be organized by Darío Lucas, the subdued ceremonial leader of Maurício Macri’s government.
Source: DN
