Almost six months after taking over as head of the Casa Rosada, the Trust in Government Index It is going down one step per month to Javier Mileiaccording to a survey of the Torcuato Di Tella University.
Thus, from an initial score of 2.86 in December, it dropped to 2.61 in January, 2.57 in February, 2.56 in March and 2.45, the last one, in April.
In this way, the libertarian president was left behind his two predecessors in this measurement, Mauricio Macri and Alberto Fernández, who after the same period at the head of the Government had 3.29 confidence points.
Confidence index: Javier Milei is behind Macri and Fernández
If the first 100 days of a government are considered a “honeymoon” with the electorates, confidence in Milei was almost 10 points relegated regarding Macri’s and nothing less than 25 points in relation to the Alberto Fernández-Cristina Kirchner duo.
The level of stability of the current Administration is higher compared to the previous ones, according to the UTDT ICG series, which means a lower comparative monthly change sensitivity.
“Comparing mandate start periodsthe current GCI presents greater levels of stability in the interval between December and April,” explains the report from the School of Government.
It is 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 Fernándezes.
The economic adjustment impacted the vision of the Government
After the economic reforms carried out in recent months, Milei’s measures had an impact on confidence figures. There was a negative view about the “Overall Government Assessment” (-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 problems of the country” (-4.9%).
Where the March weighting did turn out to be positive was in “Honesty of officials” (8.1%).
The approval of the Bases Law and the fiscal package, after various modifications, impacted citizen perception about the direction of the Government, the recession, consequently of employment, the loss of purchasing power of the salary and especially of retirements due to the effect liquefaction rather than by the application of a explicit program for income redistribution.
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