Javier Milei’s campaign filed a complaint against the gendarmerie, Argentine police, for alleged changes to the ballot boxes and the documentation required in the ballots, in favor of rival Sergio Massa. He therefore demanded more observers and representatives from other security forces to monitor the vote in a complaint calling it “colossal fraud”.
With the election campaign already over and just over a day before the elections, the measure immediately caused confusion among Proposta Republicana (PRO), the party of Patrícia Bullrich, the third most voted in the first round of the elections, founded by Maurício Macri . Argentine president from 2015 to 2019.
According to the diary La NationNeither of them, whose support for Milei in this second round is seen as decisive for the eventual victory of the economist and former commentator, was aware of the initiative of Karina Milei, the candidate’s sister who decided to control the police to get. She and attorney Santiago Viola, who signed the complaint, said they decided to file a complaint after anonymous reports.
However, Aníbal Fernández, Minister of Security (and therefore a colleague in Massa’s government), said he will file charges against Karina Milei and Viola. Agustín Rossi, Massa’s vice presidential candidate, reviewed the primaries, first and second rounds of recent years in Argentina and said: “There are constant changes in the winners, a sign that there is no favoritism towards anyone.” He also wondered why Milei didn’t complain after winning the August primary.
And in the editorial department: the newspaper Clarinthe country’s bestseller, writes that “election fraud is one of the few problems that Argentina does not have.”
Source: DN
