In the second half of this electoral year policy has become more subordinated than ever to the midterms. A tension so extreme between President Javier Milei and the provincial governors that they could not even bury their differences on such an occasion of national unity as Independence Day has less to do with the issues at stake in Congress than the jockeying for electoral candidacies. Milei claims that he is defending the fiscal surplus rather than any political interest in resisting legislation releasing more funds for university spending and pensions, yet it is precisely the fiscal surplus stabilising the economy with the aid of a monetary policy giving the peso scarcity value which is givi
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