“The problems we have will continue to be, but we are a little happier”. Even at the height of overflowing emotion, of maximum successafter the supreme suffering, Lionel Scaloni put things in their place. With the same precision, the same measure and the same wisdom with which he knew how to Leo Messi where he deserved to be for a long time and he couldn’t. Too many qualities together that so often the Argentine leadership lacks alone.
No doubts. All Argentines are a little happier. Although the problems will continue to be. But This happiness is a boat big enough to take all Argentines to the end of another year full of sorrows, which ends full of joy. we all celebrate. The streets of the entire country and of all the cities of all the countries where there was more than one Argentine were the scene of that collective catharsis (or qatarsis) that expresses much more than a sporting triumph. Without ceasing to be just a football success. Everybody knows.
The Government celebrates it as much or more than all. The World Cup not only gave an oasis of some tranquilitypause or anesthesia for 30 days in which in the country there were plenty of reasons for social tension to escalate and in which the internal dispute of the ruling party reached its climax, although it can always overcome it.
Now, “the third” of the selection gives a huge tube of oxygen to face a week that threatened with a strong tension before reaching the toast and respite of Christmas Eve.
Now, probably, nobody has in their record that they had been announced for the day after tomorrow marches and street pickets and concentrations in front of the premises of supermarket chains summoned by pro-government and opposition social organizations against the end of year bonus announced by the government last week. Almost a confirmation of the setting. What they do not want to be noticed Alberto Fernandez nor, much less, the cristicamporismo, and what Sergio Massa he seeks to hide before the official electorate and he is pleased that they register the IMF and the markets.
The inevitable question, given that “the problems will continue to exist”, is how long will this feeling that “we are a little happier” last?. The end-of-year festivities and the imminence of the start of the holidays promise to prolong it and lessen the anxiety a bit. Officials, opponents and public opinion analysts agree on that. It’s not little.
“It doesn’t change things. unzip. Unlike other times, the title is linked to the Festivals and vacations. It is a relief for the Government. And a relief for society. In mid-February or March we will return to normal Argentina”, states Eduardo Fidanzadirector of Polyarchy.
For the political scientist Federico Zapatadirector of the consulting firm Escenarios, the global analgesic is from short range and political effect. “It is a triumph of society. Politics is split. The identification with the selected one would translate into the following message: ‘Did you see?, we can. Despite you, we can.’”
The President looks happy, but shows some distance, while he tries and is excited that the champion team will go to celebrate at Casa Rosadato emulate something to Raul Alfonsin and give up the balcony without his presence. She knows that there are not too many people willing to share the festivities with him, starting with the political space that he integrates.
They let him know when he tried to celebrate his three years in office after the move to the final and they left him alone. He also found it when considered accepting the invitation to go to Doha. He did not need to do an exhaustive survey to confirm that there was no political or social ceiling to afford that luxury that he considered giving himself. Not to mention if he went and the result was adverse.
“That the President of a country cannot be at an event of this magnitude is a metaphor for the crisis that separates politics from society”, concluded Zapata.
For this reason, Fernández acts modestly and before the greetings that come to him for being president of the nation whose team has just won the World Cup for the most popular sport on Earth, he replies: “Congratulations are all to Argentina, I am glad to be part of it and share tears with all the people of this beautiful country.”
At the same time, he tries to regionalize his success in search of support that is scarce in his country and tells his “defeated” partner Emmanuel Macron that the title is an “immense joy in Argentina and throughout Latin America.” At the same time, he gets on the wonderful show of resilience followed by success of those of Scaloni in search of a mirror that gives hope: “They are the example that we should not give up. That we have a great people and a great future.” Cheer up. “We are bad, but we are doing well,” he said Carlos Menem. And in his rocker vein, Fernández joins Andrés Calamaro and Los Ratones Paranoicos to sing: “I would like this to last forever, almost as long as an eternity”, and he prefers to forget the verse that says: “I would like, but nothing lasts forever. What you want from me I already learned.”
That last is what the opponents think (and overact). With Mauricio Macri in front, who, from the very edge of the field that Fernández could not reach, sentences: “This does not change anything politically. The ruling party has no future. It’s a party for the people, who deserves it. Together with Messi, the players and Scaloni, who deserve it more than anyone”. “More than changing, he illuminates values, such as leadership, effort, merit. And long a social feeling of wanting to be happy. But if you look on the networks, little changes,” he says. Patricia Bullrich???????? For Horacio Rodriguez Larretathe result also has no political effect.
Sergio Massa considers that the title can “change the mood of the people, but I don’t see any political impact, although there may be some economic impact”. And he draws an analogy that benefits him: “The 2018 World Cup paid France with an additional 1.8 growth, thanks to the change of mood for the title. But we will have to see here”, he stops. The Minister of Economy celebrates the triumph as the deceleration of inflation in November, which showed an increase of 4.9%, although without daring to make more fortunate forecasts that could complicate it. “You have to keep working to park for three months at that number. We expected 5.3% for November ”, he reminds his collaborators. Prudence. Or information. The conditions that led to the drop a month ago are unlikely to be repeated in December, although it continues to take rabbits out of the hat. Massa’s inflationary expectation for this month is around 5.3%, but “the decisive game will be played this week”, they warn the Treasury. In his championship all the parties can be eliminatory.
At that point repair Pablo Knopoffdirector of Isonomía, to reaffirm that the title will have little social impact for the benefit of the ruling party and that “the best news for the Government was the 4.9% inflation, but it will also have little impact. The one who didn’t make ends meet before won’t make it now either. It is a motivation that lasts until the bills arrive or until you realize that you will not go on vacation ”.
Everything indicates that, in the best of cases, the oxygen tube has an expiration date of the end of February, at the latest.
But, as Scaloni accurately stated this Sunday: “We are a little happier, although the problems we have will continue to exist.” Everything is present. let’s celebrate now.