Buenos Aires., The local and international commotion over the results of the Primary, Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory (PASO) elections, in which the messianic economist Javier Milei prevailed with 30 percent of the votes, which no pollster predicted, originated hundreds of analyzes and doubts among businessmen and financial power.
Milei leads the newly created La Libertad Avanza party, in which many of her supporters salute like the Nazis did. He arrived, without being expected, supported by the international extreme right, and it seems that this already confirms him as president, despite the fact that he must face the right-wing alliance Together for Change, which added 28.7 percent of the votes and will lead Patricia Bullrich as a candidate for the presidential elections on October 22, as well as the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, for the Peronist Unión por la Patria, which reaped 27.7 percent.
The question yesterday was who voted for Milei, who defines himself as a libertarian, but whose speeches show him as a person with psychiatric problems, who proposes to free the sale of organs, or the privatization of everything that can be privatized, to end social plans, workers’ rights and the closure of the Central Bank, among a cascade of savage measures that worry even the powerful “market”, according to analysts.
The victory of this admirer of former presidents Donal Trump, of the United States, and Jair Bolsonaro, of Brazil, was celebrated by the latter, as well as by the far-right Spanish party Vox.
When reporters asked people who they would vote for during the PASO, they answered that they would vote for Milei. Asked why, they said they didn’t know. Only that it was different and several indicated that she promised to end the “political caste”.
They did not know that he was denounced before the courts by businessmen, from whom he asked for large sums of money, to incorporate them as deputies or in some other position.
This is the figure that represents the extreme right that came to Argentina to be part of the landscape and political disputes.
The director of the Latin American Strategic Center for Geopolitics, Alfredo Serrano Mancilla, analyzed that behind the vote there is “anger, ideology and messianism.”
In reality, it is necessary to highlight the disenchantment, the pandemic, the debt that former president Mauricio Macri contracted for 44 billion dollars with the International Monetary Fund, among other issues.
Thousands of Milei’s voters among the most popular classes did not even know that he threatens to privatize everything, cut salaries, resort to a total adjustment and, without hesitation, lower pensions.
Right now there are thousands of people sleeping on the streets because they can’t pay rent, or are out of work. This capital is a city divided between the residential north and the south where the population is abandoned, the dirty streets and misery appears in the thousands of outstretched hands.
There is a lot of self-criticism to be done, but the leadership of Unión por la Patria affirms that it has good possibilities, since support for Milei could fracture as the days go by, and recover the votes of a part of the angry Peronism that makes up the majority of the who did not go to vote, 32 percent, or 5 percent who left their vote blank.
