Almost one hundred days into his government, President Javier Milei seems to be locked in
a dilemma
that goes beyond a mere communication issue and ends up impacting the success of his administration.
The libertarian understands that
he needs the policy
that he called "caste" to approve a legislative package that makes his government program sustainable - a term that the International Monetary Fund likes to use.
In one hundred days not a single law has been approved
and the only thing that is still standing is the DNU - which was already rejected by the Senate where Kirchnerism rules -, and which will only remain standing because the PRO and a good part of the radicals and the Migue Pichetto's sector, plus some provincial legislators, have decided to accompany the Government.
Nothing else.
Even the dialogue-oriented opponents, vilified by libertarians and by social networks, which they claim are managed from somewhere in the Casa Rosada, do the work that the ruling party should do if it were made up of trained and experienced legislators in the La Libertad bloc Keep it up.
Thus, as revealed by Clarín, deputies such as Cristian Ritondo or Ricardo López Murphy present projects whose contents are the same as those that appear in the DNU on fiscal and labor issues, despite the latter being attacked by Milei himself on repeated occasions.
Cristian Ritondo seeks to make it easier for the ruling party to approve a law in Congress.
Photo Juano Tesone
Milei is aware of his weakness and the need for support from the opposition.
But if this is noticeable in the eyes of his followers, she fears losing the support of the people, who still continue to listen to him and make him not blame her for the adjustment he is suffering.
“Maybe the confrontation and the search for enemies is a decision because if he won by being anti-system, if he remains attached to the system he loses
,” summarizes an opponent who remembers how it affected Milei when he partnered with Luis Barrionuevo in the campaign, and then He had to go out quickly.
However,
his attitude is something that classical politics does not understand
.
From Cristina Kirchner to Mauricio Macri, passing through the UCR and the governors.
“He plays with different resources than what we are used to.
Perhaps this is also part of the change of times that we must adapt to
,” admits a provincial leader.
One of the questions is how long some provinces, whose dependence on the Nation is too high, will endure the drought of funds from the Nation.
There are other districts that do not need Rosada shipments to function, but that must resolve other conflicts, of a judicial nature, with the national Executive because they are beginning to affect their coffers, such as the City of Buenos Aires.
In September 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, Alberto Fernández unilaterally decided to subtract 1.55 points from the federal co-participation from the City (it was 2.95) and only transfer 1.4.
The excuse was to assign him to the province of Buenos Aires governed by Axel Kicillof, because he had a salary claim from the provincial police that he had to remedy, despite the billions of pesos that were transferred to him in discretionary funds.
Following a judicial claim, the Supreme Court ruled in December 2022 in favor of the restitution of that percentage to the City.
But neither the Fernández nor Milei governments complied with it.
In January there was a meeting between the head of the Buenos Aires government, Jorge Macri, and the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo regarding the debt that today would be about
$500 billion
.
Both replicated the good relationship and Macri's support for the Government's economic plan.
Inside, understanding ran in other ways.
On that occasion, faced with the unilateral cut, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta established a tax on credit card consumption in the City and a tax on operations with Lelics.
Shortly after, the tax on card consumption had to be eliminated, but the tax on lelics remained in place.
Jorge Macri at AmCham.
Photo: Federico Lopez Claro
Until recently, that income compensated for the Casa Rosada's delay in complying with the Court's ruling.
But now that the lelics began to be rescued by the Ministry of Economy, the City begins to feel the decrease in its income.
That is why days ago,
Jorge Macri sent a message to “Toto” Caputo
anticipating that at the end of the month the imbalance will probably begin to be felt.
“Shortly, and this was discussed with the President,
we are going to need funds released from the Nation
, ”
they say close to the head of government.
That 1.55% that was taken from the City to send to the Province, the Milei government has already cut it from Kicillof.
Therefore, it is a difference that the Nation is making in pursuit of zero deficit.
At the Uspallata headquarters they know and understand it, because they support the libertarian's management, but the problem is that there is a ruling against the president, the Minister of Economy and the head of Banco Nación of the Kirchnerist management.
But since it is a lawsuit against “offices” not people, if Milei, Caputo and Daniel Tillard persist in not complying with the High Court's ruling, that accusation will fall on them.
This is what the City seeks to avoid.
That is why they are not emphatically demanding the backward debt that could have a more creative solution, but rather a roadmap forward.