Durán Barba: “The last steps Milei took were not successful”

Political advisor and consultant Jaime Durán Barba analyzed the current economy of the president Javier Milea and the future of opposition at the national level. Although he acknowledged that the President had managed to reach some agreements with various sectors, he opined that “The last steps Milei took were not successful“, among which he mentioned grilling with the MPs after the veto Act on the Mobility of Pensioners either photo with Susana Gimenez.

The President launched last Saturday Freedom Advances (LLA) on a national level with an event in Lezama Parkin which he predicted: “In 2025 we will have an electoral failure, the righteous will win and the populists will sink.” Milei used the opportunity to motivate his followers, urging them not to give up and not give in to hardships. “Don’t be intimidated, keep going,” he said. The general secretary of the presidency also took part in the event as a speaker, Karina Milei.

When consulting with Luis Novaresio in the air LN+ In this regard, Durán Barba stated: “Milei I think he is falling into the old politics which was not his forte“. He called in return “traditional” to the speeches of the president and his sister.

In this sense, he believed that “The last steps Milei took were not successful“. “Not even the dinner in Olivos with the ‘heroes’ who voted against the pensioners, his performance with Susana on the balcony,” he said.

The political adviser refers to a meal Milei had with his top officials and MPs who supported the veto of the Pensioner Mobility Act. Legislators from the LLA, PRO, MID, UCR and provincial parties thus shared a barbecue at Quinta de Olivos. “Today, 87 heroes stopped the degenerate prosecutors who were trying to destroy the fiscal deficit that we Argentinians managed to achieve with so much effort,” Milei said after receiving approval from the Chamber of Deputies.

In this way, Durán Barba pointed out that these are “gestures of distance” and emphasized “when his great merit was to be with people, to share, to be spontaneous”. “He’s lost a little bit and that’s going to take points away from him,” he analyzed.

Then the renowned counsel continued his statements and insisted Milei ‘needs to connect with reality’. “It is necessary to make politics practical, because if it does not fall, politics is the art of the possible, it is not a meaningless abstract idea,” he explained.

Miley’s speech before General Assembly of the United Nations (UN). It was another of the points where Durán Barba stopped. During his participation, the head of state launched a sharp criticism of the UN, accusing it of trying to “impose a global ideological agenda”, especially within the framework of the so-called Agenda 2030, which he described as a “socialist transnational government program”.

Faced with this, the consultant assured that his speech “didn’t make any sense” because in his view “it has many contradictions”. “He doesn’t have a clear line and get down to business, where are the investments coming from that he needs to make his government work?” On this point, he elaborated: “All those who could invest in Argentina are in the second block of the UN, which is for the future, for women’s rights, for all these ideas typical of the West, which are not even religious. they are the result of the development of science, that is, science shows that there is a serious problem with ecology.’

Despite his questions, he acknowledged that Milei knows how to negotiate with different sectors, such as parties and unions, and thus described him as a “clever” person in that sense.

On the other hand, he also referred Santiago Caputothe other end of the “iron triangle” of Milea’s leadership – this is how the president defines it – by defining him as “a book-eater who belongs to this generation, which is an alternative generation”, to which he belongs.

Regarding the future of the opposition in Argentina, Durán Barba assessed “either something new will be born or one of the previous leaders can be recycled, but not the old one”. “An alternative to Milea cannot arise for raising the dead, it does not work in this case. “Everybody being in pieces, like when there’s an earthquake, we have to rethink things,” he said.

He thus argued that in the current political context “those who are original have the power”, given that “whoever votes for Peronism today can vote for Milea tomorrow and for anything”. “Why did people vote for Milea? Why didn’t people vote for Patricia or Massa? You have to think hard and think about it, you have to identify with the people, think about politics from the people,” he suggested.