The Mazazo that the province’s electorate inflicted Javier Milei still impacts his mood. The president was “Grogui” after the almost 14 points of difference that Peronism took out, despite the previous surveys that talked about a “technical draw” with an open end. It was a true massacre that altered the markets, moved the dollar and destabilized the plans of a government that at the same time speaks of “making self -critic” and “not changing anything”, a contradiction that reflects how confused it is. However, there are signs that Milei got conclusions from the defeat and that he quickly seeks to turn the page. If something must be recognized, perhaps because of your childhood so suffered, it is your resilience power.
The first sign that shows that the bullet entered is that the president ran to hug the IMF and “Mom” Kristalina Georgieva. Through his spokesman Julie Kozack, the background said that he banked Milei despite the result and will help in the control of damage. “The IMF technical staff collaborates closely with the Argentine authorities in the implementation of their program to consolidate the stability and improve the growth perspectives of the country,” said Kozack, and completed: “We supported its commitment to guarantee the sustainability of the program and monetary framework of the program, as well as its constant adhesion to the fiscal anchor and the integral agenda of deregulation,” he concluded.
“Toto” Caputo retweeted him instantly, relieved. And Milei himself also made a not very sovereign post that exhibits how tied he is to the financial body, stating that “we will not move a millimeter of the economic program” and that “the bands agreed with the IMF are maintained”, in reference to the dollar.
The second sign that the government seeks a quick reaction after defeat is the staging of changes in its internal organization, with the launch of the new expanded “political table” that debuted on Tuesday and including Guillermo Francos, Patricia Bullrich, Manuel Adorni and Martín Menem, in addition to the vertices of the iron triangle, the brothers Javier and Karina and the star advisor Santiago Caputo. In parallel, the Casa Rosada appointed Lisandro Catalán as an interior minister – a man of Franks – and enabled another “table” to bring positions Don the governors, who had distanced themselves.
In principle, everything very nice. But it will not be catpardism, to “change something for nothing to change”? There is, it is true, a detail: “Lule” Menem – pointed out by Coimagate – appears in the new “political table”, when I was in the previous one. But the one who is his cousin, Martín, Nexo with the Argentine Swiss drugstore that served as a vehicle for the alleged 3 percent coimas.
So what changed?
The third sign that Sunday’s electoral bullet entered is that the president himself seems willing to show another attitude. Only two examples. The next weekend had a trip to Spain to attend a Vox meeting, but canceled it: it was not time to show on stage with its friends from the Iberian ultra -right. The second example is that, perhaps for the first time since he is president, the libertarian was Monday and also on Tuesday to the Casa Rosada, when the usual thing is that he stays tweeting and chatting from the fifth of Olivos. We will see how much this proactive style lasts.
The election bullet entered, there are no doubts. The subject is how to get ahead.
