DE LA ESPERANZA A LA ORFANDAD. LA MIRADA SOCIAL DE LA POLÍTICA DURANTE EL PRIMER AÑO DEL GOBIERNO DE JAVIER MILEI

Abstract

This article examines how, during the first year of the La Libertad Avanza (LLA) administration, Argentine society is deeply divided between a symbolically and politically empowered pro-government sector and another sector that distrusts and opposes the government, but whose public voice has been inhibited. This division reflects a complex mix of hopes for restitutional change, rejection of the political past, and repression (symbolic and material) of opposition voices. Based on fieldwork focused on the experiences of impoverished media and popular sectors of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA), we aim to reconstruct what we call the social perspective of politics. The article concludes that, in the first year of Javier Milei's administration, two simultaneous processes have begun: the consolidation of the possibilities of transforming electoral change into a historic shift, and, at the same time, the consolidation of a social and political polarization with still unpredictable consequences.