Next week it will be decided whether Javier Milei and Mauricio Macri continue with the agreement between La Libertad Avanza and the PRO or
if that plan is reduced to a small flame
that serves as a pilot to reignite the project when the context allows it or, rather, demand it.
In their last telephone conversation, Macri and Milei
agreed to meet when the president returns from his trip to the United States
to participate in the Conservative Political Action Conference, the event that will serve as the launch of Donald Trump's campaign to return to the House. White.
Without this meeting between the two leaders and without the two of them agreeing on the mechanisms to establish convergence, the pact will not occur.
Macri thinks of two possible scenarios: one minimalist and the other more ambitious.
“The agreement has to be from less to more,” he usually says.
The “minus” is that the PRO and La Libertad Avanza maintain their separate blocks in Congress but
with Macrismo committed to supporting
, as happened with the Omnibus Law, the Government's legislative initiatives.
A second step would be the formation of an interblock and the arrival of PRO technicians to the
second lines
of the Executive Branch, in positions that, in Macri's words,
“serve to unblock the functioning of the State
. ”
There are organizations, such as Customs, AFIP or Anses, that Macri considers decisive in this sense and that need trained people to make them work.
The “more” is an idea for the future: a STEP between LLA and the PRO to put together the legislative lists for 2025 and the integration of ministers with the PRO seal in the Cabinet.
Milei, as he said privately and publicly, agrees that the PRO and LLA “merge.”
The problem is that not everyone around him thinks the same
.
The main obstacle to understanding with the PRO is Nicolás Posse, Chief of Staff and a man highly trusted by the President.
Every week, Macri receives the news that Posse vetoed the incorporation into the Government of a technician who worked in the management of Cambiemos.
Some of them are even vetoed due to their status as macristas even though they have no intention of devoting themselves to party politics.
Those who inform Macri tell him that the person who puts those black balls is Posse
.
In the Macri administration they even went so far as to assess the lack of technical and political personnel that Milei has.
15 days ago, one of the leaders who sees him weekly brought Macri a detailed spreadsheet.
The man - former Minister of Cambiemos - ordered a review of all the publications of the Official Gazette since December 10.
From this it emerges that, at that time,
Milei and Posse had appointed 700
national officials.
Today,
that count has grown to 1,200
appointments.
If we take into account that today the total number of positions with the ranks of minister, secretary, undersecretary, national director and director of state companies reaches 4,500, we must conclude that, two months after taking office,
Milei still needs to appoint almost three quarters of the
important officials needed to run the State.
At some point the version circulated that Santiago Caputo, Milei's right-hand man, also resists Macri.
Those close to the president deny it.
“Although it is not spread,
Macri and Santiago Caputo speak very often
,” explains an advisor to the former president who knows his agenda very well.
Macri planned to give a series of interviews this week to return from his vacation with statements of support for Milei, but he suspended that plan.
He told the journalists who had contacted him to do the reports that he preferred to wait until his return to the presidency of the PRO was on a better path.
Before his team he gave a similar explanation, but added that he also wanted to meet with Milei before going out to speak in public.
Macri knows that, even if his conversation with Milei has a good result, the parliamentary agreement
will not be ready before March 1
, when the ordinary sessions in Congress begin.
In the weeks that follow, Macri will be dedicated to finishing ordering his return to the presidency of the PRO.
He wants to put together a Board of Directors with the main leaders.
He still needs to convince Patricia Bullrich to assume one of the party's vice presidencies.