The theme of the week has been Presidential Chief-of-Staff Karina Milei making the most of being the perceived architect of last month’s surprising midterm victory by replacing Cabinet Chief Guillermo Francos with City legislator-elect Manuel Adorni and generally looming as more of a Big Brother than her big brother. Rather than add to the superabundant analysis of the Cabinet changes, ex-president Mauricio Macri’s peeves and “Kremlin wizard” Santiago Caputo’s future, this column proposes to challenge the underlying premise of her quantum leap in empowerment – her claim to the electoral laurels.
That claim would seem to be a slam dunk given that the midterms were won against almost all expectations except hers in general and in Buenos Aires Province in particular after September’s catastrophe at provincial level. Seemingly a total vindication of her “purple or nothing” strategy demanding unconditional surrender by all allies and leading to La Libertad Avanza (LLA) being the only label runni
Continue Reading on Buenos Aires Times
This preview shows approximately 15% of the article. Read the full story on the publisher's website to support quality journalism.