President Javier Milei announced a high-impact cabinet change this Wednesday: Juan Bautista Mahiques, the Attorney General of Buenos Aires City, will be the new head of the Ministry of Justice, replacing Mariano Cúneo Libarona, who left the post after insisting for months on his departure. In the short term, it is expected that Mahiques will define his teams, review priorities, and mark a leadership style. In this context, the change of minister is read by political analysts as an attempt to align the ministry with the more 'operational' phase of the official agenda: reforms, regulations, parliamentary negotiation, and coordination with the rest of the cabinet so that initiatives do not stall. Furthermore, the turnover comes after recent legislative victories for the Government in Congress, which reinforced the idea that the ruling party will try to maintain the reformist momentum. Different chronicles agree that the now former minister cited personal reasons for his departure, although political wear and tear and tensions within the ruling party grew over the months. With close ties to the circle of the Head of Staff Karina Milei and with the architects Eduardo Menem and Martín Menem, Viola appears in several journalistic readings as a name that consolidates the weight of 'karinismo' in a key area. For critics, the question is different: does this appointment bring more institutionalism or more political control over a gear that should be shielded? For the ruling party, it is a biographical detail that should not overshadow credentials; for its critics, it can feed the suspicion of the continuity of influence networks and a Justice system too tied to the 'rosca' (inner circle). Between one expectation and the other, the truth is that Justice returns to the center of the board, with its own names and a promise that what comes next will not be neutral.
