The Argentine President, Javier Milei, underwent a clear setback this Sunday, September 7, in an election in the important province of Buenos Aires on Sunday, September 7, in a test of evidence for the legislative elections of the middle of the period in October, but has promised to “accelerate” the course of its ultraliberal reforms.
According to the official results of 93% of the deduced votes, El Libertad Avanza (Lla), the Libertarian Party of Javier Milei, obtained a little less than 34% of the votes, against more than 47% for the Peronist opposition of Fuerza Patria (central left) in the province of Buenos Aires, which has more than a third of the Argentinian elselate.
The province was a Peronist strength, a victory of LL in the electoral ballot is barely expected, but the large a priori gap, of the order of 13 percentage points or even more, made most of the surveys are, which foresaw an adjusted race.
It was the first important electoral test for Javier Milei, since the beginning of his presidency in December 2023, in a program to relive an economy trapped in chronic inflation and debt, when he was sanded in public spending.
“A clear defeat”
However, Milei’s party, which for this provincial election, had made an alliance with the professional party of former Liberal President Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) should gain land in the Assembly of the Province of Buenos Aires, which renewed this election. He should double his 12 -seat contingent there (from 92).
Javier Milei immediately admitted on Sunday that “politically (was) a clear defeat.” But “the limit for which we were chosen in 2023 will not change (…) we will deepen and accelerate it,” he launched at the electoral headquarters of his party in La Plata (south of Buenos Aires).
“We have to learn from that,” Diego Valenzuela, candidate for the Lla, told AFP. Believing that the result “is due to the will (of Milei) not to make populism in the economy, which is new in Argentina.”
The slow atmosphere, out of the common, in Lla HQ, with some dispersed supporters after the speech of the Head of State, contrasts with exuberance in the Peronist QG, where the governor of the province of the province, Axel Kicillof, was welcome with the shouts of “feeling, feels, the president of the Axel! AFP
“Change course”
You will have to change course! “Axel Kicillof launched in direct response to the president,” Milei, people have given him an order (…) governs for people! “
Axel Kicillof, 53, one of the opposition leaders, is perceived as its only possible presidential, a fortiori from the former president and icon of the Argentine left, Cristina Kirchner, 72, purge at home since June an inejableness in prison and life, after her conviction for the fraudulent administration during her mandates (2007-2015).
Sunday’s election occurred in a delicate period for the Milei government, despite its eloquent results, although a high social cost, for two years against inflation, was reduced to 17.3% for seven months since January, against 87% during the same period in 2024.
A delicate period for the Government
The Executive was shaken in August by a scandal of alleged presumed at the National Agency of Handicap, which implies Karina Milei, sister of the president and general secretary of the Presidency. That, however, he was not directly interrogated by justice.
But Javier Milei also underwent an important legislative setback on Thursday, when Parliament, for the first time in his presidency, canceled a presidential veto, in a greater financial law of people with disabilities. In the name, according to the Executive, of a sacrosan budget balance, which again promised on Sunday not to sacrifice in any way.
In addition, at the economic level, the Government, in a notable shift, began this week to intervene in the currency market to stop the depreciation of the weight, which had recently accelerated, in the context of the pre -electoral nervousness of the financial markets. His reaction in Milei on Monday on Monday was one of the unknowns after scrutin.
However, Sunday’s provincial result does not necessarily provide the October national elections (which will renew a third of the Senate and half of the deputies). The surveys constantly suggest a hard core of approval by Javier Milei about 40% or even more.
Source: BFM TV
