A talkative president in front of an urgent alarm

The president who sent the Argentines to sleep Sunday while the surprising results of the preliminary examination were not yet known could not have done that night. At least that's what he's revealed
Mauricio Macri in his speech this morning, apologizing for his
Last Monday, he denied a press conference during which he attributed the fall of the markets to 47% of the votes cast by his compatriots.
STEP. He did not interpret the meaning of the punishment vote that they had given him. And not only the Kirchnerists, but a good part of their disillusioned voters. But
Macri again he looked at the market, not the electorate. It was a mistake.

An unexpected fire alarm made us all deaf Sunday night. If it happened at home, we would not fight with the alarm, but we would try to detect the focus of the fire that must extinguish it to extinguish it as soon as possible. This is not what the president did at first, who preferred to fight with the alarm. And obviously the fire has advanced.

But it must also be said that, unlike the previous head of government, who took the body of the bad news and does not usually expose himself when circumstances are unfavorable, his successor chose, at the most difficult time of his government, to leave office. in front of the public window three times in less than 60 hours, including two at press conferences, a device that the former president has not used more than twice and with indisputable annoyance, in the eight years that have covered his two efforts.

Macri has the great merit of showing himself such that he is in his worst trance, but at the same time the great problem of throwing away what he feels and the first thing that goes through his head, without measuring the costs. A luxury that can in no way be president, let alone in the fragile situation in which it is located. A way of communicating that can add more confusion instead of caution and control of the situation, which is necessary in these hours. It's in the moments of gravity that the quality and the height of a leader are actually measured. That's when people immediately have the intuition they face a statesman. Or not.

But it must also be said that, unlike the previous head of government, who took the body of the bad news and does not usually expose himself when circumstances are unfavorable, his successor chose, at the most difficult time of his government, to leave office. in front of the public three times in less than 60 hours, including two at press conferences

The palliative measures taken for the campaign (the return of Now 12 and 18, ANSES credits, indispensable prices, subsidies for the purchase of cars, etc.) must have happened much earlier, perhaps the same last year. . they produced successive financial tsunamis. Obsessive attention was focused on the macroeconomy, the lack of interest in the national economy and the increasingly deteriorated pocket of Argentineans had to be put on the table of priorities, even with measures such as those just taken. , most likely, They are now late.

The almost exclusive emphasis on reducing the budget deficit, if necessary, has discouraged the population. It is clear now that it was a serious mistake not to have included in the campaign slogans and speeches that anticipated the restoration of depressed popular consumption and the way in which they planned to revive the national economy during the second term. which they still aspired.

Following the advice of his most intimate circle, he ignored this reality and emphasized the strength of the current administration: the many infrastructure works carried out and the empty repetition of the mantra "This is the way ". But the works are not eaten. And they are done, even if he misses a lot of others. But people do not vote in return for gratitude, but for the expectation of what is missing and for those who are better able to give it to them now, without delay. The time for new disappointments has not come yet.