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The far-right presidential candidate Javier Milei He ended his campaign on Wednesday at Argentine elections on Sunday promising that Argentina will cease to befertile ground for corrupt politicians”.
“On Sunday we have the opportunity to have a homeland again, so that our soil stops being fertile land for corrupt politicians and becomes a land of opportunities for all those who want to progress based on their efforts.“, said the Libertarian candidate.
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Wearing a jacket and tie and this time without carrying his classic chainsaw, with which he traveled the country to symbolize the spending cuts he intends to make if he wins the elections, Milei once again attacked “caste of political thieves“, to the “prebendary businessmen” and the “journalists and microphones”.
He bet on victory on Sunday in the first round, for which he would need to obtain 45% of the votes, or 40% with a 10-point advantage over the next most voted candidate.
Milei, 52, was the candidate with the most votes in the party’s primaries in August and polls point to him as the favorite for Sunday.
At the closing ceremony, at the packed Movistar Arena – with a capacity for 15,000 people – the public carried giant dollar bills with Milei’s face or masks with her portrait.
Among them was Moses Achee, 57 years old, who until now has largely identified with Peronism in power. “I have been voting with feeling for many years (…) It was a captive vote. I didn’t think. And the truth is that he turned a blind eye in many ways”.
And now? “Now Javier Milei you have my vote, my admiration“He explained. “He is a concrete and simple person. It’s not a package. Does not belong to any herd”.
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At the event, the candidate was applauded for defending private property and “social cooperation, where it is only possible to be successful by serving others with better quality products at a better price”. His project, among others, contemplates the dollarization of the economy and the drastic reduction of public spending.
An intellectual orgasm
The Economist Alberto Benegas Lyncha reference of liberalism in Argentinaopened the event by referring to the candidate’s project “dynamite“the central bank:”What Javier Milei is doing for me is an intellectual orgasm”.
In other words, he also said this Sonia Costa60-year-old civil servant: “What Javier convinced me most about was the central bankwhere people wash dishes, dishes for their pockets”.
“And why am I not afraid of dollarization? Because our weight is no longer useful“, she said, before continuing to dance drums wrapped in an Argentine flag. “This currency must be changed. Come the dollar, come“, she told AFP, before continuing to dance to the rhythm of drums wrapped in an Argentine flag.
Several Venezuelan flags fluttered among the yellow ones during Milei’s departure, Advances of Freedomwhich carried the motto “Long live freedom, damn it!”.
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“Milei represents that group of people who want to embrace the ideas of freedom, precisely at a historical moment in which the left took such a position in Latin America and caused so much damage“, he said Luis Sambranoa 36-year-old Venezuelan who came with a group of compatriots.
He has the ability to vote for candidates for municipal office (but not the presidency) after having immigrated to Argentina seven years ago.
Last week, Milei shook the markets by declaring that the peso “It can’t even be worth excrement” and advising savers to switch to the dollar, which earned him a criminal complaint from the president, Alberto Fernández and a reaction from private banks asking “democratic responsibility”Due to fear of a bank run.
Source: Elcomercio
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