High expectations generate the annual event organized by the Center for the Implementation of Public Policies for Equity and Growth (Cippec) for Monday, April 15 in La Rural. This feeling occurs every time this dinner occurs in line with the entry of a new national government. And with Javier Milei, perhaps that expectation is even higher just by taking into account what his basic approach is about what the “State” is.
Mario Russo, a health minister who responds as a standapero.
As he repeats whenever he is invited to a forum with or without lights that could affect his aesthetic self-perception, the State is for Javier Milei “a violent criminal organization.” Then he usually arranges the rest of the sentence according to the objectives that that State pursues for him. This is, for example, facilitating a bribe in each procedure, affecting thriving businessmen to the detriment of those who are prebendaries, or finally preventing the growth of citizens who are part of the “good people.” Surely some objectives can be added in that tone as he is invited as a speaker at new conferences.
Trolls paid “with yours”: Mauricio Macri was the first, Javier Milei perfected it.
Therefore, questions arise about how Cippec will move in a situation where the Executive Branch has that conception, and the aforementioned institution proposes its actions with proposals where the State participates as a member of a scheme made up of the public, the private, other institutions, and even the unions, another target of attack by Milei and his officials.
President Milei’s obsession is to eliminate the State; Millei’s person, his aesthetics.
Added to this is a situation that is common to institutions like the one mentioned and is the business sponsorship, a support –economic by the way– that allows its operation. In this area, Cippec has important firms that, in a more frontal manner and others that are somewhat more discreet, aligned themselves with the current Government despite certain doubts that it generates like any new administration.
Do these companies have the same opinion as Javier Milei regarding the “criminal organization” that would be the State? And if this were the case, in a context of shrinking state action as part of an intersectoral effort to propose improvements or changes such as those on the agenda, for example Cippec, would those companies will continue to fund programs based on a present and inclusive State?
Philanthropy, patronage, and market.
Of course, there are always issues on which to provide solutions that do not place some – the managers – and others – the sponsors – in a position that could become a target of attack by a disgruntled Milei or, in the worst case scenario, , of an excited Milei giving compulsive “likes” on X (Twitter) to accounts fakes or own trolls against Cippec’s postulates. As has been seen so far, not even Vice President Victoria Villarruel was saved from being the target of an attack by Government trolls.
So far in 2024, the issues Cippec is working on are broad and some could affect presidential susceptibility. Among them, what to do with energy subsidies stands out, or reorganizing the pension system as an urgent duty; reduction of the Global warming effects taking into account that – in summary – “cities are burning”; regulation of political financing; proposals to generate equity in the women’s work reality in Argentina. A challenge for Cippec to continue being a non-profit organization focused on public policies, and not become one focused exclusively on business and corporate policies.
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