At this point we will have to get used to the fact that the Government
works at two speeds
.
One is the one that is seen the most.
Javier Milei does not leave a week without announcing a measure - or two, or three - that
makes politics dizzy
and that shakes, in some cases, customs rooted decades ago among leaders or institutions that are supported by the National Constitution itself.
Sometimes it is enough to give a like or reproduce an offensive meme, an insult or a fierce criticism of a deputy, a governor or even an official on social networks to generate a storm that is replicated for days in the media.
With his thumb
sliding on the screen of his cell phone on any given morning
, the President managed in these months to establish discussions that had been dormant for years or anticipate measures that in other governments had taken weeks of preparation.
In contrast to this almost permanent acceleration, there are hundreds of appointments of officials in determining organizations to establish very important public policies,
gaps of indecision
that leave very large portions of the budget unexecuted, areas of the administration that have not been launched since December. and decisions that are not made because the person responsible for the area cannot get his boss to check if the President approves them.
To these delays we must add the
almost daily news of resignations and expulsions
of officials who have only been in their positions for one, two or three months, and who go home without giving convincing explanations for their departures.
On some occasions, such as in the announcement of the application of the two candidates to join the Court, these two speeds are combined.
The Casa Rosada's rush to mention the names of Ariel Lijo and Manuel García-Mansilla contrasted with
the Government's laziness in securing the votes
for these two nominations to advance.
Victoria Villarruel herself admitted that she was never warned that she would have to dedicate herself to pushing these candidacies in the Senate.
“I found out when I saw it in the media
,” said the vice president in the hypnotic interview she gave to TN, a meeting that seemed destined to show the good relationship that exists between her and Milei and that ended up being a sample of the long chain of differences that he maintains with the President and with some of his most promoted policies.
Why do these inconsistencies accumulate?
Why do announcements come in like a flood and huge areas of administration advance in a drip?
Why does a journalistic interview with the vice president
become an endless succession of titles about the internal
government of a Government that has just completed its first hundred days?
A possible explanation is that no one - not even its own members - knows with certainty in which direction the Milei Government is moving.
It is very clear that the President put fiscal balance as the measure with which any decision that will be made in his administration must be confronted and it can also be said that he did this to cut the monetary issue and thus lower inflation.
It must also be admitted that
Milei was very clear during his campaign
and that he did not lie when he promised to cut expenses with a chainsaw and lower the population's income with a blender.
But that's where the certainties end.
Today it is practically impossible to understand what the President wants to do with an economy without inflation.
Does Milei have in his head what at some point in Argentine history was called an economic plan?
It is true that if he manages to lower inflation after decades of failures in this area, the President
will be able to win a huge medal
that may even be decisive for next year's elections.
But it is also legitimate to ask about the costs for society and also for very broad sectors of the economy that the remedy that the Government is applying will imply.
Even being very optimistic and trusting that Milei will do well with its main objective, it is difficult to imagine the day after inflation drops.
At some point, the President, or his economic team, at least, will have to sit down and say how they plan to stabilize the economy or, even more so, what political construction they will rely on to do so.