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Weekly Report - 07 March 2024 (WR-24-09)

ARGENTINA: Milei acts tough while reaching out to governors

Argentina’s President Javier Milei opened the new session of congress on 1 March. While he stopped short of calling legislators a “nest of rats” to their faces, some of his rhetoric in his one-hour speech was not far removed from his vitriolic outbursts on social media. Although he struggled to couch it in diplomatic terms, his speech did contain a gesture to provincial governors, however, who could use their influence to persuade federal legislators to unblock his omnibus bill of reforms. If not, Milei said he would circumvent congress and find other ways to advance his reform agenda, such as issuing presidential decrees of necessity and urgency (DNU). But these can be blocked by the judiciary and overturned by congress, which suggests that, beneath the bravado, he is aware of the need to win over the governors.

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