The biggest challenge for Argentine President-elect Javier Milei once he takes power on December 10 is the ability to govern.
During these times of transition, pragmatism has become an important variable in decision-making. How? For example, the rapprochement with the technical teams of former President Mauricio Macri and the talks that would already take place, for example between his future Interior Minister, Guillermo Francowith sectors of Peronism.
For which purpose? Ensure that in Congress, where libertarians are a significant minority, the economic transformation they seek is not compromised Permanent boycott of the center-right party and the other opposition forces.
Milei has stopped talking about dollarization. When asked, he doesn’t deny that this is his north; However, the economic crisis is approached in terms closer to consensus; for example: “end of inflation” or “economic recovery”; A speech that reassured the markets and many Argentines, especially those who had voted for him in the runoff but had done so until then Patricia Bullrich in the first round.
Milei has been calling for things to change fundamentally for three decades. Surely the average person won’t be so patient.
The new government will have to apply a certain dose state welfare – something that contradicts libertarian ideas – but ultimately a policy of the state, which is essential so that social movements do not activate a time bomb that the popular classes are angry about and The ghosts of political instability are awakening again.
The libertarian challenge is not easy, but it is certainly an unprecedented experiment that Argentinians have bet on to see what happens.