President Javier Milei plans to replicate the path of Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador who has governed that country since June 2019 and who this weekend was
officially
re-elected by an overwhelming
84% of the votes.
The libertarian observes several similarities with the Salvadoran.
Bukele came to power as an outsider and defeating the two major political parties;
and he took office with a minority in Congress.
But after the midterm and general elections, today
it holds an overwhelming legislative majority to approve the laws without any hindrance, with some 57 seats out of a total of 60
, according to what was confirmed this Saturday by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal .
"I think that new lions have woken up, they are going to become aware of the filthy garbage that is the Argentine political caste and, without a doubt,
in 2025 we are going to have a much cleaner
, much more honest Congress," the president assured days ago. president.
Bukele de Milei's objective is
to legislate without having to negotiate or reach a consensus with the opposition
whom he calls “criminals” and “corrupt politicians.”
Coincidentally, she aspires to a status that Cristina Kirchner enjoyed when she won the 2011 elections - after the death of Néstor Kirchner - by 54% and was left with the absolute majority in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.
Bukele came to power in 2019 but two years later in the legislative elections he reached the absolute majority, winning with 70% of the votes and with
a speech against “the old politics”
, which could well be compared to “the caste”.
Hence, Milei, early, points to next year's midterm election.
The Salvadoran leader based his growth on
the fight against insecurity
.
In 2015, El Salvador became the country with the highest number of homicides per capita in the world.
Since the emergency regime for the country was approved in March 2022, more than 75 thousand people were arrested for alleged links with gangs and security returned to the country.
In return, he is accused of curtailing the individual rights of detainees, freedom of the press and the independence of the Judiciary.
Nayib Bukele.
The president of El Salvador, recently re-elected.
Photo: AP Photo/Moises Castillo
Although insecurity plagues Argentina, especially in areas such as the Buenos Aires suburbs,
the key for Milei is not the fight against crime but inflation
.
Like El Salvador, but in terms of price increases, Argentina is the second country with the highest inflation in the world, surpassing Venezuela and Lebanon.
The other similarity between the Argentine situation and El Salvador is that Bukele has just been re-elected with
an extremely weakened opposition and no options to confront him
.
Milei, has risen to the failure of the last Kirchnerist government that has reduced Peronism to its lowest historical expression, and to the implosion of Together for Change that ended with its three main pillar parties, the PRO, radicalism and the Civic Coalition, voting different in the omnibus law sent by the ruling party.
In this scenario, the libertarian achieves that Cristina Kirchner and Mauricio Macri
regain a role
that they would have lost if the extinct Together for Change returned to power.
Firstly, because both Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Patricia Bullrich, who won the internal election, were going to carry out a government with their seal, leaving the former president aside.
And also, because a JxC administration could have forced Peronism to reconfigure itself, generating alternatives to Cristina and Kirchnerism.
Milei's victory revived the image of Macri and Bullrich.
The libertarians initially rejected a government alliance with the PRO for fear of being co-opted.
But everything is a matter of time and
depends on the needs and weaknesses of the Casa Rosada
.
The failure of the omnibus law forces the ruling party to reconsider its relationship with Macri, and to form a larger block of deputies.
Javier Milei.
With Mauricio Macri and Patricia Bullrich
This symbiosis will inevitably generate
a neo-Macrist power factor with a libertarian seal.
Because no one in the PRO - not even the former president - would sign a blank check to Milei to support the laws but without co-governing.
Cristina Kirchner knows this, which is why she seeks to boycott that center-right alliance that could be the basis of support for a space with greater perspective if Milei manages to tame inflation.
It is exposed in the warning he gives to Milei about Macri, in the 36-page document: “President Javier Milei should seriously analyze that those who were largely defeated in the last presidential elections will
try to condition him by landing in the main areas of government, and "even taking political control and displacing it from the management of the Executive Branch
if they consider it necessary."
The former vice president even
allows herself to agree with Milei
that “Argentina must review the efficiency of the State and that the slogan of the present State is not enough to solve the country's problems.”
Striking.
Mutual respect.
That of Javier Milei with Cristina Kirchner.
Photo: Handout / Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's Press service / AFP)
Cristina must appear publicly given
the lack of renewal in Peronism
, beyond some feints to enthrone the Buenos Aires governor, Axel Kicillof.
From there she criticizes the Government's economic plan, marking the field but under the strategy of not hitting Milei but rather his Minister of Economy Luis Caputo.
Probably if the threatening phrase had been rehearsed by
a governor or the singer Lali Espósito
, the presidential response would have been overwhelming.
It is better to talk about that fight than about the price increase.
Strangely, Cristina has not been the target of Milei's criticism, and vice versa
.
In her case, her forecast suggests that the President could leave the Casa Rosada sooner due to the consequences of the adjustment and if inflation is not controlled.
As when he recalled that "other political forces, at different stages, that obtained their own strength that infused them with founding air could not finish their mandates when they failed to give the people the quality of life that Argentines demand." Despite the seriousness of his statements, the rejection by officials and legislators is not accompanied by Milei.
Evidently, the President's guns are pointed elsewhere.
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