SEBASTIÁN FEST
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Updated on Monday, 13September2021-20: 43
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In Argentina, the political extremes are centrifuged: nothing and nobody survives too long, far removed from Peronism and anti-Peronism that for decades embodied the Radical Civic Union and today converges in the Together for Change coalition. But, from time to time, someone emerges to renew the landscape. In this case,
Javier Milei, an ultra-liberal who obtained 13.6% of the votes in the city of Buenos Aires
, one of the great political windows of the country.
"Long live the fucking freedom!"
, he shouted wildly on Sunday after his third place in the primaries that defined the candidates for the midterm parliamentary elections on November 14.
"The Breed is afraid, the Breed is afraid,"
chanted his followers, most of them extremely young.
"It is a very important number that we obtained yesterday. We were calm for having done a good job. I think we managed to put liberalism in the center of the ring. It was the axis of the discussion," Milei told FM Milenium radio on Monday. .
A hair as long as it is messy, cold blue eyes and a speech that corners the State and bathes its rivals in insults support
Milei, a 50-year-old economist who for years bustled the television sets setting the audiences on fire
. Now, after creating the Avanza Libertad party, he is trying to set Argentine politics on fire. He boasts of his very good relations with Vox and Santiago Abascal, vindicates Donald Trump and supports Jair Bolsonaro. It is clear that no one can accuse Milei of being ambiguous.
The city of Buenos Aires is a special electoral district, the only one in which liberalism has historically had roots.
In 1989, in the midst of the hyperinflation that was sinking the government of radical Raúl Alfonsín, it was seen how the Union of the Democratic Center (UCeDé) of Álvaro Alsogaray climbed to 22% of the votes before being swallowed up by the indescribable
Menemism
, who arrived to power brandishing leftist promises and ruled from a liberal Peronist right.
If you add 11% of the economist Ricardo López Murphy, who is part of Together for Change, liberalism in the Argentine capital reached an appreciable 24% of the votes.
Kirchnerism, defeated at an unprecedented level this Sunday, can be partially blamed for the phenomenon: it promoted the optional vote for young people between 16 and 18 years old.
A very important sector of this group, as well as those in the 18 to 30 age group, is permeable to Milei's ideas
and considers Kirchnerism a problem and no longer the solution. The "K myth", born in the embers of the great crisis of 2001, began to age. The option for many young people today is Milei or the hard left.
Milei wants to
"blow up the Central Bank",
which he accuses of defrauding Argentines with an inflation tax that implies six points of GDP.
"If the damage caused by the Central Bank has made us the miserable country that we are today, instead of being the United States, on the way to being the largest slum [shanty town] in the world, why not?"
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