Javier Milei has much more at stake than a legislative election when he goes to vote this Sunday the 26th. What will define the result of these elections is, ultimately, the continuity or not of his libertarian project, of an economic program that is already undergoing the second bailout in recent months – first with the IMF, now with the United States Treasury – and of the so-called cultural battle that the President intends to wage against progressive culture, feminism, the collective LGBTQ, journalism, public education, the disabled, science, culture, Congress, governors, and mainstream politics, to name just a few of his many adversaries. What is at stake, in addition to the economic numbers and inflation, is the survival of a method of building power by shouting and pushing, even though the president, alerted to the decline in his positive image, has tried to put aside the recurring insults in recent weeks, with evident relapses.
But, whatever the result, what is expressed by the Government is that starting Monday the 27th changes will come. That is, a course correction to face the second phase of the administration until 2027. The first announcement is a oxygenation of the Cabinet after the departures of Patricia Bullrich, Luis Petri, Gerardo Werthein and Mariano Cúneo Libarona, in addition to the spokesperson Manuel Adorni. The second promise is that the partnership with Mauricio Macri’s PRO will become much more oiled and the former president could become, like Donald Trump, a “guarantor” of the model and the reference for the yellow officials who take office, if that happens. But this interested contribution is something that was already announced in the past and that, for various reasons, never materialized.
In view of the elections, the Government promises a facelift of image and style. A new Milei, different from the one we know. Can it?
