The necessary megadecree of President Javier Milei

Added to this is his total misconduct in appointing as Minister of Economy, whom in various media he classified as a criminal and who had allowed several speculators to take more than 15,000 million dollars; appoint as Minister of Security the one who until very recently was classified as a bomb-throwing murderer, and in this “caste” cabinet he has not chosen as Minister of Justice a prestigious and respected jurist, but rather a well-known lawyer, whose judicial activities in defense of highly questioned characters made his appointment imprudent. A minister of justice who laughs out loud at the Constitution, when supporting Milei’s DNU.

What the National Constitution says

The National Constitution is very clear regarding the limit of the DNU, which was abused by the Kirchner and Macri governments, and by the Supreme Court of Justice, as well as respected doctrinaires of constitutional law. Furthermore, both the Court and the constitutionalists have indicated when there is a real emergency and when it is fictionalized to advance the Legislative Branch.

In that decalogue of infamy that is this DNU, it is not justified what emergency exists to modify the constitution of soccer clubs, privatize everything public, modify the Civil Code, allow any foreign investor to buy up to half of the province without limit any, and so I could continue with a long list of the provisions of the mega decree. What does all this have to do with the economic emergency? If it has to do with the exercise of the sum of Public Power fulminated by art. 29 of the Constitution, and the quasi-exercise of a civil dictatorship in the style of the corrupt Fujimori, who did not hesitate to liquidate Congress, to impose his will on all Peruvians. We already know how the end was.

What Javier Milei wants to do by taking out this DNU

Milei is not going to dare to do so much because he does not have the slightest political possibility or the strength to do so, but this DNU is an indication of what he wants to do, subjecting the entire legal structure of the State to his whim, counting on the complacency of the greats. means, which are seen in figurines to try to justify it, with some honorable exceptions.

There is no way to hide what was caused by the disastrous government that has just ended, but this in no way means destroying the institutions by the sole will of the president, and a group of obedient officials willing to endorse everything that is put in front of them. The excuse of having been elected by 56% of the votes is invalid because that only gives him legitimacy of origin, but does not give him legitimacy in the exercise of power, since he must respect the legal system and not mock it as he does. made two days ago by the all-powerful advisor Sturzenegger.

All the stupid people who are legion on Facebook and other networks skillfully worked on by the Millite trolls forget that justifying this means justifying that tomorrow another president of the opposite sign will do the same and once again destroy everything built by those who exercise power today.

Errors that keep repeating

George Santayana always remembered that “people who forget their history are condemned to repeat it” and in Argentina we know too well many foundational projects that failed, and increased the hardships of Argentines.

If not, look again at Martinez de Hoz’s first speech when he spoke of “coming to turn a page in history” and found a new country. Milei and her precarious cabinet, with less talent and knowledge than the minister of the dictatorship, intend the same thing, without caring about the pain of those who have the least who are going to be the most affected by everything they intend to do.

Reflections on the speech of President Javier Milei

In this case it is important to reflect on several points of the justifying speech of the president and his ministers. Doing it on all of them would take a long time:

1. Talking about 100 years of decline is false, and shows an encyclopedic historical and sociological ignorance. This mantra is repeated by a diverse group of ignorant people, imbeciles of diverse backgrounds, many illiterate, and those who, incapable of the effort of serious reading, only consume what is provided to them by that overstuffed journalism that Milei spoke so much about.
2. It is strange that someone who participated in marches, and referred contemptuously to the oligarchy as Milei, today takes refuge in it to govern, having lost the memory of what he firmly supported in other years.
3. There is not a single writer on constitutional law who has not repudiated this DNU for the way in which it seeks to repeal an entire regulation, destroying a set of laws, and I clarify that those that have been issued have nothing to do with Kirchnerism.
4. The President repeatedly spoke that the adjustment was going to be paid by the “caste”, but through the measures that are known it is seen that the only ones who are going to suffer the consequences are the employees, those who have a plan, the retirees. Those on whom all adjustment plans have fallen for decades.
5. What justification exists for control organizations such as the General Sindicatura of the Nation, to have been entrusted to the management of a businessman, and the same has happened with the Secretariat of Science and Technology. Only show who are the real owners of Power, who hide behind public organizations to exercise their deleterious action, benefiting the groups from which they come.
6. How can it be understood that Luis Caputo, repeatedly reviled by the President, is today the one who has been entrusted with the management of the Economy together with his partner in ANKER, Santiago Bausili, both well-known speculators with public bonds and being officials of the Macri government, in addition from other unethical activities. In the case of Bausili, although the Federal Court revoked his prosecution, it did not dare to separate him from the process despite the efforts of his lawyer, brother of the current Minister of Justice. And that Sturzenegger, participating in the government that put the country into debt through a sinister mega-exchange of securities, is today the architect of the reforms.
7. The country suffered the consequences of economic deregulation and privatization in the 90s, when it was decided that business groups would do whatever they wanted with the country, through the rules that were dictated, and as I graphically expressed it in a meeting Chancellor Guido Di Tella. We lost YFP, a company symbolic of the nation’s progress, and many others, and the debt grew from $60 billion to more than $140 billion. Is Milei, a follower of Menem, going to follow that path? It looks like it is.
8. It’s a lot to talk about, but to finish, something that Miel and his cabinet have not said a word about, is THE DEBT. What will happen to the debt originated in the dictatorship and refinanced by all constitutional governments. Having Caputo at your side, it is understandable what could happen since, as Minister of Finance, he put us in debt for 100 years at a huge interest rate, and signed the Stand By with the IMF for 50,000 million dollars, a heavy inheritance that will continue. weighing on public finances along with all the public debt, which today is 437 billion dollars.

To think and reflect

National and foreign businessmen, who transferred their debts to the entire Argentine people in 1982, are celebrating today. In today’s money, those debts paid by Argentine labor exceed 156,000 million dollars. Wouldn’t it be more logical for them to pay the adjustment and return to the Nation what we paid for them for years, instead of celebrating that they will continue to benefit from Argentine work.

As my dear and deceased friend Federico Delgado wrote, in his recently published posthumous book “Politeia”: “freedom is possible from a minimum level of material conditions of existence. It is inevitable, then, to discuss the right to existence. Will our people be able to use that right, if they lack the most basic things and will the Nation’s resources be used and administered by the same people who plundered it for decades?