When does the beginning of the end of a government begin? With Monday’s diary, those who arrived at the dome of power usually set a date and instantly that changed the fate of an administration forever.
Marcos Peña would say that it happened in April 2018, in that weekend of exchange run in which macrismo met in olive trees to deliberate corrections but in the end it came out without any real change. Alberto Fernández and his ministers would tell that the break was the day when, after losing the legislative of 2021, the then president refused to accept the resignations of officials K. This is only for making recent history. In his book “Diary of a season on the fifth floor”, Juan Carlos Torre tells the day -to -day life of the Ministry of Economy of Alfonsín, commanded by Juan Sourrouile and he seconded. On July 23, 1988, he scored in his diary: “Juan’s crisis. In his own words: ‘I am going to desert from the ministry,’ he told me at 11 in the morning, and he was held at his home. From three to seven in the afternoon I have a company.”
How will it be the time they will choose, in the future, the Milei or Santiago Caputo brothers when they have to tell their own history? For now it is an unknown. It is not even known if freedom progresses will have more than one mandate, and there are several in the red circle that, in these hot hours, are encouraged to speculate that not even that. However, there is something true: if indeed what passed in the days before and after the electoral defeat of the violets in Buenos Aires was a turning point, there are plenty of spare anecdotes that paint the drama of the moment.
Screams and push between Sebastián Pareja and “The Magician of Kremlin.” Struggles between the advisor and “lule” menem. Guillermo Francos, resigned, that prepares an excuse not to go to the bunker on the day of the election. The shock of the first ring of the ruling party when seeing how far the control of the minor of the Milei comes over his brother. Insults uploaded in the networks among its main media swords. The government entered a spiral from which it can be difficult to leave. It is a frank implosion.
Back room. On Sunday 7 at night, after the difference of 14 points of Peronism over the libertarians, there was enormous concern in the government. A feeling that almost scratched with panic. However, the bulk of the ruling party clung to a single hope: the idea of what palazo size was going to serve to make a deep change in the assembly and cabinet, something that all the actors involved had been claiming for a long time, with less and less patience. All but, of course, the pointed ones, Karina Milei and her troop.
In those last hours of Sunday, he lit a news. One that was shared not only by the bulk of journalism but also by the ruling party. In fact, the journalist Joaquín Morales Solá revealed that even the president himself had that same certainty: the next morning he would ask the resignations for Sebastián Pareja and “Lule” Menem, his sister’s territorial shipowners.
Who writes this note uploaded a tweet to his personal account at 22.22. “To those who are already watching Menem and a couple I remind you that: the most only man in the world always, but always, does what Karina wants.” For those hours there was talk of a “Takeover” of the Government’s caputism, and even the possibility that the advisor who, for the first time went up to a stage, gave him a formal position. The next night none of all had happened. The karinists were ratified in their places and no deep change took place. In La Rosada there is even a meeting between Milei and her sister, one where she convinced him – or forced him? – to reverse his decision and not expel his trusted men. The resolution not to do anything was, for the first government ring, much more than a serious political error: it was the deadly check of how far the control level of the general secretary who, in the papers, manages the country.
In the last hours of Monday 8, a government of the government, with charge and office in La Rosada, raised the phone and contacted those who write this note. News readers know that the links between the government and this publisher are far from being good, so communication was a novelty. The official sent Sunday night’s tweet, next to the following question: “I need to understand this. Why are they like that? Why can Javier never take him against?” What this person transmitted was something similar to shock. He had just understood how far the life of the Milei, and especially the traumas of a violent and complicated biography, were what ordered the government. And that are those who can now send them right to the abyss.
The full note, in this news edition.
