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Eduardo Costantini, a billionaire property developer, supports Milei’s plans but describes his handling of Congress as an “unforced error”. “The legislative strategy he had clearly didn’t work,” he says. “He came away from this first round practically empty-handed.”
Nicolás Pino, head of agribusiness lobby La Sociedad Rural Argentina, says cutting spending without also delivering deep reforms of Argentina’s state in the legislature is “no solution”. He urges the president to “lower tensions” with Congress and try again. “He will find many people ready to help him.”
But Milei appears to think otherwise. People who deal with the government say the president is now more dependent than ever on a small inner circle of true believers and his army of social media followers, to whom he devotes more than two hours a day online. His closest advisers include his sister Karina, who used to sell specially decorated cakes on Instagram and is now the presidential chief of staff, and Santiago Caputo, a 38-year-old political consultant and social media guru whose father is a cousin of Luis Caputo, the former Wall Street trader now serving as finance minister…
Some question Milei’s economic results too. Eduardo Levy Yeyati, an economist and professor at Torcuato di Tella university in Buenos Aires, believes the much-vaunted fiscal surplus in January benefited from accounting tricks such as shuffling government payments around. “The surplus is unsustainable,” he says. “It can only be sustained if the government passes tax measures.”
I am not saying this is true, as I genuinely do not know the latest. But it is the pessimistic account, if you are looking to catch a dose of that. Here is more from Michael Stott and Ciara Nugent at the FT. You will note that the (black market) peso is up, but only modestly.
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