Thousands of people, hundreds of journalists and dozens of police vehicles went to the National Technological University, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Almagro, to follow the vote of Javier Milei, far-right candidate of the La Libertad Avanza coalition, in the Argentine presidential elections. elections.
A cult figure for his followers, Milei was received like a football team. “You can see it, you can feel it, 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.
“He is afraid, the caste is afraid, the caste is afraid,” continued the crowd, which made the normally quiet Avenida Medrano on Sundays look like a Bombonera, home of Boca Juniors, or a Monumental, home of River Plate, while the candidate I smiled. and he threw his clenched fist into the air.
“We are very calm, we made all the effort we could make, everything that had to be done, we did it, now let the polls speak, the moment is theirs,” said Milei, the second most voted in the first round, to a month. she does, with 30% of the votes, along with Karina Milei, the sister whom the candidate calls “boss.”
“We are very satisfied, we work hard to confront a campaign of fear, a dirty campaign against us,” he concluded, before returning to the Hotel Libertador, the bunker of the “mileistas” of these days.
Much more discreet, but still attracting enormous popular and media attention, Sergio Massa, candidate of the center-left Unión Por La Patria, voted in Tigre, the region of Buenos Aires where he lives and where he held municipal functions.
“I voted accompanied by my family, with a lot of love for Argentina and with the pride of helping to strengthen democracy, we have a huge opportunity to build a better future for our children, I ask everyone to vote with hope,” said the current Economy Minister.
Deserving 37% of the votes in the first round, despite the economic crisis of the government in which he participated, he promised that, if he wins, “the Argentina of national unity will come.”
Throughout the morning, the local press also followed the voting of the outgoing president and vice president, Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner, both supporters of Massa, and Maurício Macri, Fernández’s predecessor and supporter of Milei.
The first protagonist to vote, however, was Lilia Lemoine, deputy of the Libertarian Party, makeup artist, man of influence, cosplayer and Milei’s image consultant, at 8 am. Moments before the polls opened, he told the press that he got up early to offer himself as an electoral inspector, following up on complaints of possible fraud made by the La Libertad Avanza candidacy on the eve of the vote.
However, more than 86,000 armed forces personnel were deployed to man 106,160 polling stations in 16,888 schools and other places in this second round of elections.
Source: TSF
