Another chapter in the war that Javier Milei declared to the deputies was unleashed after the President described Congress as "a rat's nest."
The reaction of the opposition was immediate and from different spaces they agreed that the Government is thus seeking to "gain time" and demanded that it say "how it is going to govern."
It is clear that Milei has not yet managed to digest the legislative defeat that meant the fall of the Omnibus Law, which according to his reading did not advance in Deputies because the political leadership wanted to "continue maintaining their businesses."
Thus he broke the little dialogue with the non-K governors and even in his reaction, the head of state vented his anger with the also liberal Ricardo López Murphy, whom he described as "garbage and traitor" for not having accompanied articles from the official project when it was published. I voted in particular.
In the midst of this political tension, the head of the Unión por la Patria bloc, Germán Martínez, stated that "this whole style" of Milei is terrifying.
"The only thing he has to say is to attack another branch of the State," said the deputy for Santa Fe, who has already filed a criminal complaint against the President for possible requests for bribes in Congress to deal with the questioned mega DNU that he signed in December to deregulate the economy.
"What you are building is a mistake. Insults and grievances are never fully processed. Someone may or may not react immediately, but sooner rather than later it is a boomerang," the legislator warned.
Meanwhile, radicalism, which also asked that Milei's statements be investigated, described the way the President communicates as "undemocratic."
This was conveyed by the president of the UCR block of deputies, Rodrigo De Loredo, who labeled the model applied by the Government as "McCarthyist" and targeted advisor Santiago Caputo for being in command of a team of "trolls."
"As bad as it may seem to me, this is allowing them to gain time and stretch social patience and find a culprit. The problem is when it does not generate solutions," said the deputy for Córdoba.
On the other hand, Cristian Ritondo, head of the PRO bloc, who maintains political coexistence with the ruling party, tried to put the President's criticism in perspective and, after pointing out that "this is not the first time he has referred to Congress in this way," he considered that "it's not something serious."
"These are styles that, personally, I do not share, but it is the President's opinion," said the former Buenos Aires Security Minister.
"Milei knows perfectly well that she cannot put all legislators in the same bag, and that was demonstrated in the treatment of the omnibus law," Ritondo stressed to this newspaper.
The Civic Coalition of Elisa Carrió had already questioned some measures of the Milei Government.
Even the former deputy had already warned about "Pymecide and destruction of the middle class due to the high tariff."
Faced with these statements by the libertarian against Congress, Paula Oliveto came out to cross him, who assessed that the President's statements are "a distraction" and clarified that the objective is "the search for enemies."
"You don't have to get hooked but rather demand that he say how he is going to govern. He is going to see the show on March 1. Everything so that what is important is not talked about," the legislator added to this newspaper, who clarified that "until now he has "It's going well" to the representative of La Libertad Avanza.
The socialist Mónica Fein, meanwhile, warned that "Milei already showed his appreciation of Congress by turning his back when he took office, with the DNU, ignoring Congress, and with a law that he took over that he did not want to leave."
"She has neither the temperance nor the prudence for the position she holds," she added.
From the Senate, the radical senator Pablo Blanco repudiated the statements of President Javier Milei and demanded that the President "retract his retraction on March 1 before the Legislative Assembly."
"His statements do not harm the legislators but rather this fundamental institution of democracy. I hope for his public retraction on March 1 in his opening speech to ordinary sessions before the Legislative Assembly," the Fuegian senator transmitted in a release.
This entire climate of tension occurs at a time when Congress is going to enter into the treatment of the DNU that the President signed in December to advance with the deregulation of the economy and that the dialogue opposition questions and hopes to find an alternative way to break it up and thus avoid the total rejection of the measure.