Others liken the Argentinian to Brazil’s former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, who this week urged “all Argentinians” to support Milei’s push for “real change”. “There is an alignment with all those who are willing to fight against socialism at the international level,” Milei told the Economist last month, minimizing Trump’s role in the January 6 Capitol riots.įrom left, Argentinian presidential candidates Javier Milei, Patricia Bullrich and Sergio Massa. Milei, a freewheeling TV personality who only entered politics in 2021 after being elected to congress, is often compared to Donald Trump, whom he has praised. Bullrich urged parents to discourage their children from supporting Milei, whom many disillusioned young Argentinians consider “a saviour or messiah”. The third main contender, the conservative former security minister Patricia Bullrich, denounced Milei’s “bad and dangerous” ideas, which include abolishing the central bank, loosening gun laws and even legalizing the sale of human organs. “It makes me really angry when I hear those who want to govern Argentina say we are a shitty country,” Massa said of his rightwing opponent’s apocalyptic portrayals of the South American nation. In suburban Buenos Aires, Milei’s Peronist rival, the finance minister, Sergio Massa, asked factory workers for support despite the slump his government has overseen, with 40% of Argentina’s 47 million citizens living in poverty amid triple-digit inflation. Now we’re going to win control of this country with our ideas of freedom,” claimed Ramiro Marra, a close ally from Milei’s coalition, La Libertad Avanza (Freedom Advances). “It’s going to be the first fucking round! Round fucking one!” “Whatever it takes, we have to win on Sunday,” bellowed Milei. At his final campaign event in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, the 53-year-old “anarcho-capitalist” addressed a packed 15,000-capacity stadium from a stage adorned with a banner proclaiming him “The Only Solution” to Argentina’s economic malaise.
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