Why there is no painless way out of the crisis in Argentina

Far from calm, this end of the year was mobilized by political issues. MDZ Radio spoke with political analyst Daniel Billota about the controversy that arose from the Supreme Court ruling in favor of the City of Buenos Aires and the inmates of Together for Change. The specialist highlighted society's indifference to a political class incapable of solving its problems.  

In this context, Billota stated that the horizon for our country next year "is so ugly" that no political party is "encouraged" to say that it has a solution, "because they are all going to be very painful. There is no path without pain in Argentina”.

“We are facing the end of the cycle, among a government that finds it increasingly difficult, however controversial its decisions may be, to execute any. And an opposition that tries to oppose that, but at the same time also has a hard time being fluid, cohesive and finding a horizon for society. Beyond the fact that we find ourselves with a logical and legitimate claim from CABA, it is far from what is worrying any citizen, who looks at politics no longer without understanding, but rather indifferently, because none of these issues are finally linked to a concrete solution to their problem”, he pointed out.  

The specialist warned that we are at a "very low" moment of political dialogue due to its quality. Regarding the incorporation of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta to his Cabinet, he said: “What he is doing is incorporating hawks to reach a point of understanding with Macri and become the only candidate for president without the PASO. For this reason the versions of Bullrich appear again as a candidate for governor in the province of Buenos Aires. This would end up removing the profile of a leader that public opinion can believe”.

In this sense, Billota assured that Larreta does not want an inmate with Bullrich. The latter, according to the specialist, has Mauricio Macri "behind" her, "who encourages and agitates her when she does not reach an agreement with Larreta. If the former president agrees with the latter, we will have to see what happens with Bullrich" .  

Finally, the analyst referred to the political problems that triggered the ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice in favor of the City of Buenos Aires: "This fight is irrelevant to society. Everyone realizes that there is a fed up in the latter, we are no longer talking about a rift between the parties, but between the political leadership that attends to its game and a society that expects to be told that someday the real problems it faces they are going to be resolved.” 

Everyone realizes that there is a fed up in the latter, we are no longer talking about a rift between the parties, but between the political leadership that attends to its game and a society that expects to be told that someday the real problems it faces they are going to be resolved.