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Will fall, but the ideas of dollarization and the closure of the Central Bank, which were the two main economic projects with which he campaigned, are receding on the horizon. However, shock measures will begin immediately. It will not wait until March 1, which is the traditional start date of the parliamentary year. He announced that he will call extraordinary sessions to debate a series of laws with which to begin to implement his reforms, which are based on the reduction of public spending and taxes, labor reform and the opening of the economy. The ideas of dollarization and the closure of the Central Bank, which were the two main economic projects with which he campaigned, are receding on the horizon. We must wait for an adjusting government, a harsh version of the government of President Menem (1989-1999), who in the 90s of the last century applied what he himself described as “major surgery without anesthesia.”
Milei has confessed that Menem, with his neoliberal policy, which privatized the country's main public companies, was for him the best president in Argentine history. The difference between one and the other is that Menem had Phone Number Database Peronism behind him - including the powerful unions -, although he had to convince, tame and subdue a Peronism that had been supporting the statist doctrine for decades. The differences with the Brazilian Bolsonaro are also important. Although Milei has a revisionist position on the past military dictatorship - especially his vice president, Victoria Villarruel -, today the military does not play any political role in Argentina, nor is there any possibility of it, as happened in Brazil with Bolsonaro. For him, furthermore, the defense of the dictatorship, even of torture, was an obsession.
An apostolic blessing of savage capitalism? Aware of his parliamentary weakness, Milei is negotiating to gain allies. With the former president Mauricio Macri for weeks, but he needs more support and is trying to attract non-Kirchnerist Peronists like Miguel Ángel Pichetto and Florencio Randazzo . That is to say, he is appealing to the much maligned “caste”, one of his main workhorses. Data at the end of last year, compiled by the Argentine Catholic University, indicated that 51.7% of Argentines received social assistance from the State He does not need parliamentary support just to push his bills forward. As political scientist Andrés Malamud pointed out, he would need to secure at least a third of the chambers to avoid impeachment and eventual dismissal, which some sectors are already dreaming of, even before his term begins.
Milei has confessed that Menem, with his neoliberal policy, which privatized the country's main public companies, was for him the best president in Argentine history. The difference between one and the other is that Menem had Phone Number Database Peronism behind him - including the powerful unions -, although he had to convince, tame and subdue a Peronism that had been supporting the statist doctrine for decades. The differences with the Brazilian Bolsonaro are also important. Although Milei has a revisionist position on the past military dictatorship - especially his vice president, Victoria Villarruel -, today the military does not play any political role in Argentina, nor is there any possibility of it, as happened in Brazil with Bolsonaro. For him, furthermore, the defense of the dictatorship, even of torture, was an obsession.
An apostolic blessing of savage capitalism? Aware of his parliamentary weakness, Milei is negotiating to gain allies. With the former president Mauricio Macri for weeks, but he needs more support and is trying to attract non-Kirchnerist Peronists like Miguel Ángel Pichetto and Florencio Randazzo . That is to say, he is appealing to the much maligned “caste”, one of his main workhorses. Data at the end of last year, compiled by the Argentine Catholic University, indicated that 51.7% of Argentines received social assistance from the State He does not need parliamentary support just to push his bills forward. As political scientist Andrés Malamud pointed out, he would need to secure at least a third of the chambers to avoid impeachment and eventual dismissal, which some sectors are already dreaming of, even before his term begins.