The ascension of Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, has many confused and ignorant of their side’s future, and many are already predicting what that time will be like – The Guardian reported.
Ever since Milei’s lightning-fast election victory last month, everyone has been trying to figure out what Argentina’s future might be under such a motley personality, considered by many to be the country’s most unpredictable president ever. Here’s what a wide variety of people are saying about it.
“I don’t know [what will happen] and I think anybody who tells you they know what will happen in Argentina is either lying to you or is out of touch with reality,” said Moisés Naím, a political commentator and author.
One of the first opinions relates to Gael Policano Rossi, one of Argentina’s leading astrologers, a leftwing poet, playwright and astrologer known as AstroMostra, said the following words:
“Now, we have elected someone whose main slogan was: ‘I will blow it up.’
He voted against Milei, fearing a right-wing backlash against Argentina’s feminist movement and the LGBTQ+ community. Now he is in doubt whether the new president’s apparent and suspicious restraint will last. Last week, progressives were outraged when Milei appointed Rodolfo Barra, a former minister who was once arrested for attacking a synagogue and was a member of a neo-Nazi group, as attorney general.
“I see chaos,” he responded when questioned about what lies ahead for his country in the new year after temperamental far-right libertarian Javier Milei became president.
Ofelia Fernández, a feminist activist and politician, expressed relief that Milei had not honoured a promise to hand over control of the armed forces and internal security to his ultraconservative vice president, Victoria Villarruel, who defended members of Argentina’s 1976-83 dictatorship.
It would have been so very painful to see a champion of these genocidal criminals take charge of something so important. But we know Bullrich pretty well and her campaign wasn’t that different, so it’s hard to find this particularly comforting
Ludovica Squirru, a celebrity astrologer whose predictions are based on the Chinese zodiac, is not convinced that the presidency awaits Miley. She didn’t vote either because of registration problems, but said she would have supported the usual conservative candidate, Bullrich.
Milei is a metal dog… and the dragon year, which starts now, is his complementary opposite.
In the three weeks since Milei’s election victory, observers have noticed signs of moderation in him. He has dropped some of his most unorthodox economic advisers, leading some to believe that plans to replace the Argentine peso with the dollar had been shelved. He is keen to mend relations with Argentina’s main trading partners, China and Brazil, after insulting their leaders during the election campaign. In addition, key cabinet posts have gone to members of the conservative establishment, which Milei has repeatedly labelled Argentina’s corrupt political “caste.”
The final words can summarise the whole story that is happening to the Argentine president right now: “He has been much more pragmatic than many people thought,” said Juan Cruz Díaz, the managing director of the Buenos Aires consulting company Cefeidas Group.
