Since the inauguration of Javier Milei, on December 10, the unprecedented experience of a government that proposes major legislative changes and structural reforms without having a parliamentary majority began to be processed in Argentina.
In this dynamic, predictable and logical tensions, adjustments and imbalances emerge between democratic representation and the functioning of the republican system.
Or in other words, the adventures of the players and teams deploying their game strategies and their effects on the game itself that is being played.
Government and opposition, and those who occupy the Executive and the Legislative in tension and competition, but with the common and pressing imperative of governability, under the needs and urgencies imposed by the economic crisis and an expectant society, which also sets limits to the main actors.
The Political Satisfaction and Public Opinion Survey of the University of San Andrés (UdeSA) released these days shows a country divided in half: after the first month of Milei's government, 48% approve of the management, while 48% approve. disapproves
According to the data from this survey, in December Milei reached 54% approval, thus preserving the vote obtained in the second round.
A month later, the presidential image fell 6 points, despite which Milei remains first, with the rest behind.
But on the other hand, an overwhelming majority - 71% - say they are totally dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country.
The percentages in the estimation of the performance of the three branches are also low, although with a slight increase: 31%, the Executive, 23% the Judicial Branch, 20% the Senate and Deputies.
Regarding the relationship between the ruling party and the opposition, the treatment of the DNU and the Omnibus Law, 60% of those surveyed believe that the President should negotiate his agenda with Congress, compared to 17% who say that he should impose it. .
At the same time, 47% think that Congress should cooperate with the President and negotiate some reforms, 27% believe that it should not cooperate, and only 14% believe that he should approve the delegation of powers.
An arm wrestle from which, in addition to winners and losers, there must be some point of agreement.
That the Government does not have a parliamentary majority can be a problem or a condition of opportunity.
A condition that forces us to understand that majorities are not easily imposed: they are built by improving proposals, negotiating and generating agreements.
Just as the legitimacy of the exercise is paid with management, realism should prevail over voluntarism, deliberation over decisionism, and negotiation over imposition.
because otherwise everyone loses -we lose-.
There is always the risk of "crashing" it, and the human factor plays a fundamental role, even more so taking into account the personality of the President.
As Julio Pinto, a great professor of political science, pointed out, the lack of a fundamental social agreement persists, related to dissent in the means but consensus in the ends to be achieved by our political system.
A factious reading of politics, radicalized dissent and permanent confrontation continues to prevail among us.
Although we continue to oscillate politically between rhetorical anger and agreement,
"it seems necessary, more than ever, to obtain a shared vision of what liberal democracy is and what it should be in our country
" (Julio Pinto and Gabriela Rodríguez Rial,
Entre la Rhetorical anger and the agreement. The difficult Argentine political scenario
, Eudeba, 2015).