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Argentina
A thousand reforms, but doubts over implementation
The new administration has not lacked for ideas but has been less successful in its efforts to persuade an opposition-dominated congress to give those ideas a green light. One of the Milei administration’s first moves was to use an existing procedural rule to temporarily (and legally) side-step congress. This was achieved by introducing DNU 70/2023, a “decree of urgency and necessity” (Decreto de Necesidad y Urgencia, DNU) which contained no less than 366 specific measures. Signed on 20 December – just ten days after Milei took office - the DNU can be seen as a wide-ranging enabling law. It cancels 80 pre-existing laws and over 300 regulations, prohibitions, and limitations on business activities, simplifies administrative procedures, and seeks to weaken the power of trade unions over their members.
- 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