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 K officials.
This is just for making recent history. In his book “Diary of a season on the fifth floor”, Juan Carlos Torre tells the day to day back of the Ministry of Alfonsin economythat Juan Sourrouile commanded 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 brothers Or Santiago Caputo when they have to tell their own story? 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
Sunday 7 at night, after the Difference of 14 points of Peronism over libertariansthere was a huge 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 government caputismand even the possibility that the advisor who, for the first time rose 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 editorial are far from being goodso 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.
Fights
Francos did not want to go to bunker -He who was not the militancy either in the night of defeat. He shielded himself in a family excuse in advance, but the truth is that fatigue and frustration are accumulating in him. It is not the only one: the Minister of Human Capital, Sandra Pettovello, who was not part of that day, can no longer keep for himself the frustrations he accumulates with management.
What is in the background is the crisis of a political method. One who was given by the disorder: a president who did not get into “the thread” and that delegated everything in his sister and his advisor, who soon entered a war of interests and boxes that he did not know or did not want to contain. That was the system that everyone believed that it came to an end after Buenos Aires defeat. But no, it is still paired, and this time it would seem like comedy.
Milei premiered “three political tables” -a national, another Buenos Aires and another of the brand new Minister of the InteriorLisandro Catalán, along with the governors-but nothing else changed. In fact, it was not clear what the “tables” are for. Zdero, governor of Chaco, met in La Rosada with “Lule” Menem on Thursday 11, not with the brand new Interior Minister. In the Buenos Aires “Table” the only novelty was that Agustín Romo, Block Head in the Province and Man of Caputo, was explained by explicit order of Karina. That is: the tables only seem to have brought more internal.
Meanwhile, tensions seem to have reached an unsustainable place. On the night of the bunker, the couple’s shipowner threw himself on Caputo. He had seen a tweet from Daniel “El Gordo Dan” Parisini against him and exploded. The situation was nothing to finish the trumpered. The journalist Manuel Jove said that on Thursday prior to the elections, exactly the same had happened but between “Lule” Menem and Caputo. The Karina shipowner came a tweet from one of the “magician” soldiers and crossed like a whirlwind in La Rosada to hit him. We had to separate. In addition to the anecdote, it shows that the virtual terrain entered an uncontrollable spiral.
“The Gordo give” for the first time in history was encouraged to talk directly to Milei: “Dt orders the team.” But what most graph the chaotic moment is the rebellion of a long series of wild tweeters and influencers that in the past were the heart of the libertarian phenomenon. @Liberatordeargy published the couple phone to insult him -what is known as “doxo” -, while @ivanzaa2 shared a message that had 10 thousand likes: “200 centuries waiting for a liberal government to throw it down an autistic one governed by his sister”. The shots even reach the president himself.
In fact, the situation is so delicate that an ally of the Government, as Ricardo López Murphy, tried a desperate exit: to approach Milei again – he made a public letter where he reminded him that he said before “his second father” – and also add the economist to the economist Diego Giacomominiat another time a “brother of life” of the libertarian and today far from him. “With jets I don’t think about it,” was the dry response of the former president’s partner.
Disagreement
Milei, meanwhile, seems more alone than ever. In the government the first real short circuits between him and Luis Caputo begin to be reported. The Minister of Economy was not so convinced of the Lefi exit or the strong rise in the interest rate. In both cases the insistence – the whim? – of the president imposed himself. Many also wonder how much more can endure his advisor Santiago Caputo, who in the papers must command the strategy but that in practice is again and again disagreed by action or omission of the president. In the worst hours of the government, besieged by corruption scandals and a very hard electoral defeat, only a certainty emerges: the president is managed by his younger sister. And I could never choose between her position and her.
