Until less than a month ago, the brothers Milei, Javier and Karina, could imagine that, such as the Cartoon Roadrings, they did not have to worry about the force of gravity that affects common mortals. Without having to strive, overnight, the duo managed to climb from the dark to the top of the national political hierarchy, almost magically distancing from the thousands of characters, some very talented, who had dreamed of doing the same for years without reaching more than a parliamentary bank.
And as if what was achieved in their own country, it was not enough to convince them that fate had chosen them to fulfill an importance in the history of the human race, Javier, a favorite friend of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, immediately became a great international reference, one of the leaders of a movement that, according to their supporters, would free the western world of the claws of socialism and the western world. They were destroying it.
It does not surprise that, locked in a triumphalist bubble, the Milei and those who had chosen them in their adventure have trusted both the good star of the chosen by the forces of the sky to be the best president of universal history, which cost them to react quickly to the scandal caused by the dissemination of recordings in which the former official Diego Spagnuolo alluded to the alleged participation of Karina and Eduardo “Lule” Menem in the sale of favors to pharmaceutical companies that, of course, have been a traditional source of funds for politics.
To further disconcert the government, other Karina audios that were recorded in the Casa Rosada began to circulate; Although it would seem that the content was innovate, which virtually anyone could access private conversations between officials alarmed both the Minister of Security Patricia Bullrich who began to talk about the intervention of “people linked to Russian intelligence services” and Chavistas, which meant that Argentina was in “a situation of helplessness.” To protect the country from its external enemies and, to be assumed, internal, the government achieved that a injured trajectory judge, Alejandro Patricio Maraniello, prohibit dissemination by the journalistic means of the audios, thus authorizing prior censorship.
How could it be otherwise, the Kirchnerists, who know a lot about corruption, did not hesitate an instant to take advantage of the suspicions generated by what was happening. While they have not been given convincing anyone that Cristina is really innocent of the many positions against her, both she and her fans insist that she limited himself to respecting the generous unwritten norms that have preserved their validity in the country and that allow all political groups to finance their activities with money contributed by entrepreneurs used to sell goods and services to the State. From their point of view, that the Milei brothers are on suspicion of asking for clots serves to confirm that what was done by Cristina and her accomplices was normal and that for this reason it was terribly unfair to condemn the doctor to spend years of house arrest and carry an electronic ankle.
Since Milei was erected in president because in the opinion of broad sectors of the electorate he had nothing in common with the politicians of the pile, being accused of behaving like any veteran of “the caste” that takes corruption for something unfortunate but routine must already be painful, but it would not be easy to try to disconnect from the matter, fuses “to appease the moralists, as they would surely do other mandatory. Unfortunately for Milei and for the rejoicing of his many enemies, his sister, with whom he has a symbiotic relationship, leads the list of suspects. It would be logical that he asked to be replaced as general secretary of the presidency with someone better qualified, but those who know him say that doing so would be traumatic. Also, although it would seem that he will have to do it, it would also be difficult to defend the Menem for being Karina’s main allies in the libertarian government.
Be that as it may, even though almost all members of “La Casta” are subject as miserable as Milei usually says, he will have already realized that he will not be able to do without the services of people who understand how things work in the public institutions of the country and that they would be able to administer them effectively. Bad that despite the president, governing is not as simple as he would like to believe. Nor would it be to reform the political class. You cannot do it with forceful measures comparable to those you are using to make the economy more rational. There is no political equivalent to the zero deficit; For Argentina, a democracy in which the electorate has the final floor, maybe he can expect that, walking time, voters get used to punish the corrupt those characters that do not gather the minimum conditions necessary to become decent state legislators or officials.
In the opinion not only of Milei but also of many others, the very long and almost fatal decline of the country was due to the fact that for how many decades he was in the hands of politicians who took pride in the sovereign contempt that they felt for the economic reality -which numbers so inhuman that bother the biempensants -and boast of baseing their decisions on what they were. To remedy the consequences of the dysfunctional model that such politicians had managed to create, Milei set out to go to the other extreme and subordinate the political to economic. For a while, the scheme that would rehearse provided promising results, but that phase is approaching its end. To solve with solvency the social pressures that are beginning to be felt, the government would have to strengthen what could be called its political wing.
Those who, with a dose of malice do not exaggerate too much, say that Milei is acting as if it were the Minister of Economy while Karina, who was not chosen by anyone unless one includes her brother, works in the political role that should correspond to the President of the Republic. The scheme they improvised did not cause many problems when preventing the economy from sinking in the midst of a hyperinflationary storm was an absolute priority, but, with reason or without it, many are concluding that the emergency has been overcome and that the time has come more seriously the need to give the ambitious economic program outlined by Milei a base of political support that is much stronger than that exists.
Will the results of the elections that are to be held to justify the extravagant optimism that are one of Milei’s identity signs? Although it is feasible that many legislators carry violet flags enter the Congress, which happened last week in Corrientes will have taught the ruling that should not be refused to ally with related partisan groups that, among other things, would be in a position to supply the experienced officials that he needs so much.
If an agreement with the radicals in Corrientes had reached, where they won by an extremely comfortable margin, La Libertad advances, which ended in the fourth place behind Kirchnerism and a Radical Discola faction, would be proclaimed responsible for the victory that Juan Pablo Valdés, the brother of the outgoing governor Gustavo Valdés. Something similar happens in other districts in which the bulk of the electorate tends to worry more about local issues than nationals.
As things are, the government authority headed by Milei will continue to depend more on the lack of convincing alternatives than on his own expertise, but this does not mean that the president can afford to continue to put his personal feelings before everything else. In the last weeks, it became painfully obvious that it needs to surround itself with more trained men and women, and less capricious, than those that make up the current ruling cast.
Milei may not understand, but the easiest part of its management has already been over. Those who warn that the proposed order for both Milei and all the awareness that liberal capitalism has turned out to be the only system that has been able to satisfy the majority aspirations will not be wrong, since they privilege those who possess the precise skills to prosper and harm many others, but unless the country resigns to a future dominated by mass poverty, there are no more options. From now on, the Government will have to face the problems that will suffer a society in transition that is forced to change a socioeconomic “model” that is not very demanding for a decidedly more competitive one. Not to fail, you will need to have collaborators who stand out for their professional capacity
