It is known that Javier Milei is fascinated by the figure of the lion. Perhaps, to hide his self -conscious personality, victim of paternal blows and bullying in school, that dangerous animal with teeth, claws and hair offers him a protective shell with which to face life. But, of course, the king of the jungle is a predator, an implacable carnivore, a beast that infuses fear. And the lion king who saw last night by national chain, on the other hand, seemed helpless, almost a mimous kitten. Or as General Perón would say, herbivore.
Let’s see. In his speech of just 15 minutes, the herbivorous leoncito said he would use a good part of the future budget to meet the unsatisfied social demands that made him lose the elections in the province. He assured that there will be an increase in real terms, above the inflation projected for next year, 5 percent in the retirement departure, of health 17, of the 8 in education and of the 5 in the amount received by each pensioner for disability. In addition, the departure for national universities will rise in 4.8 billion pesos. “The priority of this government is human capital,” he said in the face of the disbelief of the neighbors who at the same time began to hit their pans in different Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires neighborhoods.
That is, say, an unrecognizable milei.
So much, that he did not even close with his classic and combative “Long live La Libertad, Cajo”, nor surrounded himself with his officials, as in other chains.
In addition, for the first time he did not distinguish between “Argentines of good” and “mandriles” or other vermin, but greeted all citizens equally: “Thank you Argentines, that God bless you.”
He even encouraged to predict that “the worst has happened”, plagiarizing a speech by Mauricio Macri of 2018, the year in which the runs changed that made his government creak.
In short, talk for all and enough adjustment. But is the speech of that herbivorous lion to which his claws cut off and limited his teeth? Because remember that it is the same as, just days before, I had vetoed the new laws of university financing and pediatric emergency. Which Milei is, then, the real one? The carnivorous léon that redoubles the bet and advances with its chainsaw? Or the one who, only hours later, appears by national chain reading the “Biri Biri” that Santiago Caputo wrote to try to calm a fire society?
And another question: if after this somersault it is going well and wins in October, will you hold those promises of change or return to its roots, the recharged chainsaw?
It is not necessary to be a fortune teller to know the answer: herbivorous lions do not exist.
