The ultraliberal economist Javier Milei affirmed on Sunday night, in his presidential victory speech, that “the end of decadence is beginning” and the “reconstruction of Argentina,” but he warned that “there will be no half measures.”
“It is a historic night for Argentina,” Milei said before several thousand followers at his campaign headquarters in Buenos Aires, after obtaining more than 55% of the votes, surpassing the current Peronist Economy Minister, Sergio Massa, who already recognized the defeat.
“The impoverishing caste model has ended. Today [domingo] “We are adopting the model of freedom, to become a world power again,” said Milei. “One way of doing politics ends and another begins,” she added.
“We face monumental problems: inflation, stagnation, lack of real jobs, insecurity, poverty and misery,” the president-elect listed. “Problems that will only have a solution if we once again embrace the ideas of freedom,” he added.
“There is no place for gradualism, there is no place for lukewarmness or half measures,” Milei warned.
During the campaign, the candidate promised to introduce the US dollar as the national currency, to combat inflation, currently 143%, among other breaks in the country’s economic and financial policies.
Another proposal is a drastic reduction in the number of ministries, to only eight, which led his opponent to claim during the campaign that the provision of essential services to the population, including Health and Education, was at stake.
The economist addressed on Sunday night “all Argentines and political leaders, all those who want to join the new Argentina,” but he also warned about possible social resistance to his reforms.
“We know that there are people who will resist, who will want to maintain this system of privileges for some, but that impoverishes the majority. I tell you this: everything that is in the law is allowed, but nothing beyond the law,” he is stressed.
With 97.6% of the votes counted, Javier Milei remains with 55.8% and Sergio Massa with 44.2%, according to the official partial results of the second round of the presidential elections.
In the first round, on October 22, Massa obtained 36.78% of the votes, while Milei, who has the support of former president Mauricio Macri and defines himself as an “anarcho-capitalist” – an extreme form of liberalism that he defends a stateless capitalist society. obtained 29.99%.
For the final stretch of the election, Milei obtained the support of the third place in the first round, Patricia Bullrich.
The next Argentine president, who will succeed the Peronist Alberto Fernández (2019-2023), will govern from December 10 for the period 2023-2027.
Milei asked the Fernández Government “to be responsible” and “assume its responsibilities until the end of its mandate.”
Source: TSF
