The ‘crazy’ Milei will become the “first liberal libertarian president” in history

Identified with the figure of a hairy lion and with attitudes more typical of a rock star, the ‘crazy’ Javier Milei will become this Sunday the “first liberal libertarian president”of history, something he boasted about after proclaiming himself the winner of the general elections in Argentina.

With a disturbing speech and manners typical of a ‘reality show‘, with which he triumphed in television meetings in which he paved the way for party politics, the leader of Advances of Freedom He fulfilled his dream of becoming the Presidency of the Nation.

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The pulpit and logo with which he came out to speak on the night of November 19th, when the official candidate won the vote, Sergio Massagave a closer image to the The White House than Rosada, something that continued later, with several actions closer to the North American Administration.

Argentine Economy Minister Sergio Massa greets his supporters at the party headquarters in Buenos Aires on November 19, 2023. (Photo by JUAN MABROMATA / AFP) (JUAN MABROMATA/)

The lion? The crazy?

“Hello everybody! I am the lion. The beast roared in the middle of the avenue”. So it begins “panic show“, song by the group hard rock The Renga that Milei sang at all campaign events to wake up those he calls “lions” of a Argentina sleeping and to whom he promised, as the song says, to be “the king of a lost world”.

His provocative charisma and his innovative way of talking about politicians”jets”(thieves) – along with eccentricities such as raffling off his deputy’s salary or openly saying that his mastiff dogs advise him – were a magnet to capture the attention of countless young people and those disenchanted with politics – mainly men.

Milei, a’strange‘from politics until 2021, when he was elected deputy, he surprised in the primaries last August, when he was the candidate with the most votes, ahead of the coalition Together for Change (JxC, center-right) and the party in power Union for the Fatherland (Peronism).

Javier Milei holds a giant US$100 bill with his face during a campaign rally in San Martín, Buenos Aires province, on September 25, 2023. (Photo by Luis ROBAYO/AFP). (LUIS ROBAYO/)

After finishing second in October, behind Massa, in the second round he beat his opponent by eleven points.

Economist apologist for Austrian Schooldefends freedom in any area of ​​life, even those contrary to right-wing ideology, such as abortionhe gay marriage and the drug addictionas long as they do not burden the State.

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Milei gained visibility in Argentine public opinion with constant interventions on television programs, in which he displayed an uninhibited oratory filled with insults to the established power, the famous “race”, of which, however, he ended up being an ally by appointing as ministers the members of the old presidential formula of Together for Change, Patricia Bullrich It is Luis Petriformer members of the Executive of Mauricio Macri (2015-2019).

The president-elect of Argentina, Javier Milei, with former presidential candidate, Patricia Bullrich, during the end of his electoral campaign in Córdoba, Argentina, on November 16, 2023. (Photo by DIEGO LIMA / AFP) (DIEGO LIMA/ )

Graduated from University of Belgrano (Buenos Aires), with two postgraduate degrees and no experience in Public Administration, Milei worked as an economic advisor for several organizations and companies, the last of which was Airports Argentina 2000.

His image as a rebel in a suit – or in a sports jacket under a leather jacket, which could hide a bulletproof vest – raised many eyebrows among mainstream politicians, who considered him a “crazy”With a messiah complex.

He received this nickname at various times in his life: as a teenager and playing football and, later, in several of the jobs he held, he became known for his temper and angry reactions.

So much so that the journalist Juan Luis González qualification’The crazy‘a book about your figure’unstable”, in which he analyzes his connections with powerful businessmen and politicians – before his emergence as ‘strange‘- and its most striking episodes related to its proximity to the supernatural.

“Anarcho-capitalist”

His arrival in Congress in 2021 began to worry the “caste”, especially when the self-defined “anarchocapitalist” proposed breaking the monetary ‘status quo’ through the dollarization of the economy, the privatization of most state-owned companies, the reduction of the tax burden and the freedom of access to firearms and the sale of organs.

He used a ‘chainsaw’ in the campaign as a symbol of the cut in public spending: for now, he will reduce ministries from 18 to 8. His proposal to end the central bankFor now, it has been put on hold.

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The explosive socioeconomic cocktail that Argentina is experiencing has been fertile ground for the growth of the liberal ranks led by this fan of Rolling Stonesformer club goalkeeper Chacarita Juniors and follower of Juniors mouth.

It does not adhere to the 2030 Agenda and denies the climate crisis, as well as the disappearance of 30 thousand people during the military dictatorship (1976-1983), something unthinkable in one of the few consensuses in Argentine politics.

Javier Milei and his sister Karina Milei react to the results of the second round of the Argentine presidential elections, in Buenos Aires, on November 19, 2023. (REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian).

His inner circle is integrated, in addition to his dogs, who he calls “children”, by his partner, the actress, dancer and comedian Fatima Florezfamous for imitating the former president Cristina Kirchner (2007-2015); and to your sister, Karina Mileiwhich he nicknames ‘The boss‘ and what is their main emotional and political support after the abuse they both suffered from their parents.

Source: Elcomercio