He Trust in Government Index prepared by the Torcuato Di Tella University comes going down one step per month since he assumed the presidency Javier Milei.
So, from an initial score of 2.86 in Decemberfell to 2.61 in January, 2.57 in February, 2.56 in March and 2.45, the last one, from April.
He economic adjustment that fell on the citizens and the attempt to introduce structural reforms that they played directly and indirectly to half of the population that. one way or another, cashes state checks They open a parenthesis regarding the trust in its execution, with a negative view on the “General evaluation of the government” (-13.6% compared to March), “Concern for the general interest” (8.9%), “Efficiency in the administration of public spending” (-3.5%) and “Ability to solve the country’s problems” (-4.9%).
Where the March weighting did turn out to be positive was in “Honesty of officials” (8.1%).
The causes of the fall in trust in Milei
The busy approval of Bases Law and the fiscal package, After various modifications and liquefactions of objectives, it impacted citizen perception about the direction of the government, the recession, consequently of employment, the loss of the purchasing power of salaries and especially of pensions due to the eroding effect of inflation rather than due to the application of an explicit program for the income redistribution.
If the first 100 days of a government are considered a «Honeymoon” with the electorates, Confidence in Milei was almost 10 points behind that of Mauricio Macri and no less than 25 points in relation to the Fernández duo.
Is if greater the level of stability of the current Administration compared to the previous ones, as emerged from the UTDT ICG series, which means a lower comparative monthly change sensitivity.
“Comparing periods of beginning of mandates, the current ICG presents “higher levels of stability in the interval between December and April”explains the School of Government report.
Because The difference between the maximum and minimum value from December to April is 0.41 points in the case of Milei, against 1.34 points for Macri and 1.32 points for the Fernández family.
Profile of the most trusted
In a cut by gender, ages, education and ideologyrespondents from male sex, young people from 18 to 29 years oldespecially those who They reside in CABA, the ones that have secondarythe most recent victims of episodes of unsafety and who toput to an improvement economic from 2025.
In the latter case, however, In April there was a sign of a decline in optimism and a slight advance in pessimism.
The last performance of the previous government had been 1.41 points, influenced by a rebound due to result of the general election, in which the ruling party, represented by Sergio Massareversed the defeat in the PASO and obtained the first minority.
He also raised the score of August1.27 points, which coincides with the resounding fall in the primary elections. He represented almost half of Milei’s April figure, and the change of government in December positioned the new management with a 125% higher start in terms of confidence than its predecessor eliminated in the runoff.
Prior to the pandemicFernández started 2020 with 2.32 points, slightly below the current Milei step, and a year later, with the prolonged confinement as a starting point, it fell to 1.88 points and from there it fell on the slide that culminated in 1.41 at the end of the administration.
He Confidence in Government Index (ICG) has been carried out since November 2001 based on a national public opinion survey and is measured on a scale of 0 to 5.
Fountain: Argentine News
