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Argentina
Javier Milei: profile of an outsider
Javier Milei took office as president of Argentina on 10 December 2023, at the start of a four-year term. It is safe to say he is not a typical product of the country’s long standing political establishment. He had only become a full-time politician two years earlier in 2021 when he became a deputy for the city of Buenos Aires. The son of a bus driver, he had an unhappy childhood but was very close to his younger sister Karina, who remains one of his key political advisers. In his youth he played fourth-division football for Chacarita Juniors and was a member of a rock band which performed Rolling Stones covers in the Palermo neighbourhood of Buenos Aires.
- Javier Milei: profile of an outsider
- What’s the mandate? The 2023 elections
- Opinion polls harvest data on popular frustration
- A thousand reforms, but doubts over implementation
- Omnibus reform law placed on hold
- Provinces express concern over May Pact
- The other story – pleasing the markets
- Milei on the defensive over top salaries
- The crime issue
- Mixed picture from the pollsters
- Foreign policy: Milei’s shift to the right
- Compare and contrast: Milei and Noboa
- How deep is the pain?
- What do Milei’s first 100 days tell us?
- Scenario 1 A social explosion?
- Scenarios 2 Milei triumphant?
- Scenarios 3 The messy middle way