There’s an unwritten rule in Argentina’s politics that sometimes the leader has to remain absent. It happened with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner during the campaign for the 2017 midterm elections, when she was ultimately defeated by Mauricio Macri’s then-unknown candidate, Esteban Bullrich, but still secured her Senate seat. And in 2019, when the ex-president ousted her historical nemesis from the Casa Rosada by deciding to take the second spot in the ticket, picking Alberto Fernández as presidential candidate. Every time she spoke, her polling figures dropped.
Javier Milei and some of his top-level officials appear to have taken a page from that playbook. After a hard-fought victory in national midterms last month, for the first week President Milei and Economy Minister Luis ‘Toto’ Caputo did the rounds in a series of friendly television interviews, along with a few public appearances, before moving into the background. Ecstatic from their spectacular electoral victory and from having pleased Uncle Sam and receiving an emergency bailout from US President Donald Trump in Washington, they seem to benefit more from seeing their dishevelled opponents tearing each other at the seams, rather than muddying themselves in the vicissitudes of day-to-day political skirmishes Of course, they occasio
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