Thousands of people, hundreds of journalists and dozens of police vehicles flocked to the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, in Buenos Aires’ Almagro neighborhood, to watch the vote of Javier Milei, the far-right candidate of the La Libertad Avanza coalition, in Argentina’s presidential election. elections.
A cult figure to his supporters, Milei was received like a football team. “See, see, feel, Milei is president,” shouted in unison the supporters of the anarcho-capitalist who wants to implode the Central Bank and dollarize the country’s economy.
“It is afraid, the casta is afraid, the casta is afraid,” the crowd continued, making the usually quiet Avenida Medrano on Sunday look like a Bombonera, home of Boca Juniors, or a monumental venue of River Plate, as the candidate smiled. and threw his closed fist in the air.
“We are very calm, we have done everything we could do, everything that needed to be done, we have done. Now let the polls speak, the moment is theirs,” said Milei, the second most voted in the first round, for a month. ago, with 30% of the votes, next to Karina Milei, the sister who calls the candidate ‘boss’.
“We are very satisfied, we have worked hard to face a campaign of fear, a dirty campaign against us,” he concluded, before returning to Hotel Libertador, today the “bunker” of the “mileistas”.
Sergio Massa, the candidate of the center-left Unión Por La Patria, was much more discreet but nevertheless attracted enormous popular and media attention. He voted in Tigre, the region of Buenos Aires where he lives and where he held municipal positions.
“I voted together with my family, with great love for Argentina and with the pride that I have contributed to strengthening democracy. We have a huge opportunity to build a better future for our children. I ask everyone to vote with hope,” said the current Minister of Economic Affairs.
Despite the economic crisis of the government he participated in, he earned 37% of the votes in the first round and promised that, if he won, “the Argentina of national unity is coming”.
Throughout the morning, the local press also followed the votes of the outgoing president and vice president, Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner, both supporters of Massa, and Maurício Macri, Fernández’s predecessor and Milei’s supporter.
However, the first protagonist to vote at 8:00 was Lilia Lemoine, representative of the Libertarian Party, make-up artist, influencer, cosplayer and image consultant for Milei. Just before the polls opened, he told the press that he woke up early to offer himself as election inspector, following complaints about possible fraud filed by the candidacy of La Libertad Avanza on the eve of the elections.
However, during this second round of elections, more than 86,000 armed forces were deployed to cover 106,160 polling stations in 16,888 schools and other places.
Source: DN
