Confrontation and adjustment, Milei’s hundred days as president of Argentina

After winning the elections as an ‘outsider’ who, with aggressive speech and disturbing ways, promised to end “the caste”, Javier Milei This Tuesday celebrates one hundred days in office, in which he maintained a conflicting narrative and fulfilled the announced economic adjustment.

He “First president libertarian liberal”of the world, as he likes to define himself, came to power on December 10, winning in November in the second electoral round against the then Minister of Economy, Sergio Massawith 56% support.

Today, despite the severe economic adjustment affecting the middle and lower classes (elimination of subsidies; devaluation of the official currency; loss of purchasing power in wages; very high inflation), the ‘Honeymoon’ continues… at least in part.

According to the latest consultancy report D’Alessio IROL Berensztein, the government of Milei receives 43% approval, but disapproval rises to 52%; Meanwhile, the study Giacobbe & Associates It reflects that the president has a positive image of 53.6% and a negative image of 42.1%.

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Fed up with democracy

Your appearance’Rockstar‘, his digressive style and social media management made him rise in Argentine politics and reach his peak with the Presidency.

For the analyst Jorge Ariasof consultancy Polylatewhat happened in Argentina It was another symptom of “dissatisfaction with democracy around the world”.

“This boredom, this boredom of dissatisfaction, people tried to express it with a ‘strange‘that would put the political caste at the end of the chainsaw’, he tells EFE in reference to the object with which Milei organizes your fit.

But people”he imagined himself next to the chainsaw handle” and, with the adjustment of Mileihe checked “which was next to the teeth of the chainsaw”he adds.

However, and despite the call for sectoral strikes, and even a general strike on January 24th – the first in Argentina since May 2019 -, the social upsurge that was expected as a reminder of 2001 did not come.

Arias identifies the libertarian adjustment with the model of the last military dictatorship (1976-1983) and also points out that “with Milei The same thing is happening” as happened when he came to power Jorge Videla: “At some point, people got scared because they didn’t think the situation would go that far, neither economically nor in terms of repressive policies.”

For the analyst, society is currently under ‘cooked frog syndrome’.

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Crisis

The star projects of Mileithe legal bases and starting points for the Freedom of Argentines and the decree of necessity and urgency (DNU) foundered in their parliamentary process, exposing the institutional fragility of the Advances of Freedom: with 38 deputies, 7 senators and no (provincial) governor, the far-right party of Milei must negotiate agreements.

Furthermore, the Executive is confronted with the provincial governors, who on March 1st Milei appointment to a “refoundation pact” in Argentina which must be signed on May 25, under some conditions. The recent “no” to DNU He tightened the rope again.

Several controversies in Pink House led to minor cabinet changes. However, the last ‘victim‘of libertarian rage is the vice president, Victoria Villaruelwhom some accuse of having his own agenda and harming the interests of training.

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Argentina and the world

With the arrival of Milei, foreign policy changed: after not allowing the entry of Argentina in the group of emerging economies BRICSchose the United States and Israel like a lighthouse

Alejandro Rascovanprofessor of International Security at the School of Politics and Government, National University of San Martínevaluates the new diplomacy as “negative, extremely erratic and conflictive”.

“There is a huge mismanagement of foreign policy that will have very high costs in the future. In the immediate future, in commercial and political ties; and in the long term, on strategic issues”, he details to EFE.

A look “ideologized” for Israel in the middle of war Link; the “risky bet” on an electoral victory of donald trump; it’s him “contempt” in the direction Brazil and other neighbors mark, for the expert, this new stage in which the president did not tour the region.

The Davos Forum, a tour of Israel, Italy and the Vaticanand his participation in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Americans have been their movements since December 10th.

Source: Elcomercio

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