Finally, The government successfully passed the interim review. He entered the election with a mandate to reform the macroeconomy, sharply lower inflation, reverse a significant portion of the decline in real incomes, and reduce the poverty rate from 50% to 30%. He also implemented an emergency program to defend in the markets the results of a recall drive that expelled nearly 70% of members of Congress and used all the pressure to undermine his ability to govern in the months leading up to the October election. The results are conclusive; This country is returning to normalcy. Who was “under attack” in the past 90 days before the election?
The economy will normalize in the coming months. Exchange rates will stabilize, inflation will continue to fall, and interest rates will fall. The faster the country risk declines, the faster the already recorded investment growth process will be. Economic growth is the best scenario for advancing the structural reforms already presented to society. The government aims to push ahead with labor, tax and criminal reforms in February, but all indications are that unless it achieves these goals through extraordinary measures, it will be a mere flop.
Now, we have the following set. a completely strategic issue For our country, it goes far beyond government goals and requires excellence in various sectors of civil society that do not seem to exist today.
Over the past four decades, there are at least six public institutions that have deepened crises that have limited and distorted Argentina’s development potential. Structural change needs to be implemented over the long term, but it is technically and politically complex to implement. of justiceIt is not working as well as it should at both the national and local levels. he pension system Economic sustainability and socio-demographic changes require fundamental reforms. of public educationis in a very serious regression process on three levels. of public health National and local interests also deteriorated significantly. of Public securityhas serious flaws, and the drug threat makes things even more difficult. Structural poverty in Argentina, particularly concentrated in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, Rosario, Córdoba and Mendoza, to name only the most important ones, requires specific policies.
None of these problems can be solved through politics. Our country does not have a political party organization with the technical expertise to successfully carry out these tasks, much less to “sustain” the necessary debates that later lead to politically sustainable legislative proposals. In many of these cases, funds should be sufficient, but they are far from being so, so this is not just a question of allocation of economic resources.
Civil society has been silent for years, largely because macroeconomic imbalances have been large enough to preclude the viability of alternative arguments.. But things have now changed, and we now have a social space where we can listen to experts who have been working on these issues, or are working on them, but are unwilling or unable to figure out how to incorporate them into the national debate. Paradoxically, most of them work in public institutions at national and local levels.
Therefore, various groups with expertise and experience in judicial issues, the scientific community, the university community, the various NGOs active in our country, Accept responsibility for pending discussions These are very complex in themselves, but they become even more complex when you need to clearly explain the example of three levels of government: national, regional, and local. Furthermore, the federal nature of our country presents a very important complexity in bringing about changes to the very rigid and rigid processes and structures suggested above.
Argentina’s macroeconomic normalization is solid enough for civil society to begin playing the leading role necessary to enrich the debates essential to rebuilding our country.
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