Now, as then, the decisive match doesn’t consist in passing legislation yet in implementing it. In the 1990s, the match was played by different players from those who had conceived and planned the reform; consequently, the innovations that could be implemented in short order remained standing (among them, self-certification, the restructuring of ministries, administrative federalism, the liberalizations carried out for better or worse), but those that required the long haul fell by the wayside.