Today's La Nacion had an interesting editorial ,"Reconstruir El Tejido Social e Institucional del Pais".Reconstruct The Country's Social and Institutional Fabric". This as we all know only too well has been destroyed by the numerous confrontations and conflicts instigated by the Ks to keep themselves in power long after they have left government.As you above have stated there are too many candidates.True enough but this is Argentine "personalismo" at work and you have no choice but to work with it.Damian Fernandez Pedemonte,Director of the Post Graduate School of Communication at Austral U. and a researcher with Conocet ends with 3 suggestions to awaken hope to regenerate the debate that is absent today.1) reinitiate the independence and deliberation of the different state powers-a real separation and interaction of powers.2)Protection of civil rights and freedoms and.3) Initiate pluralistic ,non-violent debate among all the marginated even if they are not close to the central government.Maybe this might help.Even if the Argentine press is a "total joke" as one member of the forum recently stated.
The three points that you mention should already part of the fabric of the society; one should not even have to think about them nor mention them. Suggesting that they may help is tantamount to saying, "It may be helpful to reinstate democracy in the country (if, indeed, it ever existed).
Moreover, it doesn't help that people keep suggesting that creating a real, sustainable economy would be the equivalent of returning to (take your pick: Menemism, the 90's,
el neorealismo). The
ideas were correct; the implementation of those ideas was incompetent and much worse, incredibly corrupt, and because of that, many people believe an economy similar to those of the successful countries of the world is not only incorrect, but is the worst possible path that the country could take.
If privatizing and taking on debt were the worst possible things that you could do, then the most successful economies of the world would be the least successful. Yet this is what the majority of people here have been led to believe.
It was proven long before I was born (a long time ago) that governments are, by far, the worst at managing companies. There are practically no historic examples disproving this.
And taking on debt is virtually universal in the world, not only in the public and private sectors, but also for individuals. But if you take on debt without following any rules and guidelines (if you are a country, for example, following the rules and guidelines set forth by the World Monetary Fund), it should hardy be surprising if you rapidly find yourself in over your head.
Bringing this back to the OPs question, saying any of this outright will guarantee that you will lose the election. After the closer-than-expected ballottage in the city, Macri felt obliged to take a step back from this reasonable position and say that under his administration, the government would not consider selling YPF or Aerolineas Argentinas, which has made him look weak and lose voters.
However, there is still hope (possibly). None of the opposition (save, perhaps, the far left) want the current government to stay in power. You can be sure that all the leaders of the opposition are talking on a daily basis. The only question is whether they can get past their egos and make some form of viable deal if the election arrives at a ballottage (which seems very possible). The recent news reports insist that Macri and Massa are talking constantly, and it seems reasonable that if there is a ballottage, that the third place finisher (and probably Stolbizer and possibly Saá) will throw their support behind the opposition winner. Even with the support of all the opposition leaders, however, it's still a very iffy situation. A zebra doesn't change its stripes, and peronistas generally don't either. Add that to the feudalism of the sparser and poorer provinces, the
clientelismo and the expected amount of fraud, and even in the best of situations, it's going to be a tough row to hoe for the opposition.
And nobody's even talking about the congress. But that's another ugly post.
