The story of the Argentine ultra -right on a present of prosperity and greater ventures has just crafted with unpredictable derivations. The legislative elections in Buenos Aires, where 40% of the register of the entire country is concentrated, became a national contest. President Javier Milei received a beating that strongly compromises your government In the midst of a series of previous economic and political setbacks in an increasingly hostile congress. Peronism, the main opposition force, obtained 47% of the votes13 points more than the alliance between La Libertad advances, Milei’s party, and the PRO, the other conservative formation, of the former president Mauricio Macri. In spite of the strong stumble, the television exterctulian said that his project will not only remain untouched: it will be radicalized.
The unappealable defeat has surprised all the pollsters who gave a much lower difference between the main contestants. The first conclusions They point to a massive anger vote against a government that has mistreated pensioners and disabledand whose co -president in fact, Karina Milei, is located in the center of a scandal for alleged bribes in the purchase of medicines. His brother said his party must make a self -criticism that will in no way affect the main management guidelines. “If we have made mistakes from the political we will correct them and we will work to be better.”
The main concern is concentrated in the next few hours in the markets. The fear of a exchange run, given the inability of the Central Bank (BCR) to contain the dollar, acquires other foundations. A cimbronazo of that nature would affect in a sensitive way to the economic plan of the government. The clouds extend until October when the national parliamentary elections are held, on October 26, which could also be unfavorable for a completely baffled ruling.
A failed polarization
Milei tried to polarize with Peronism. He called during the last and dull campaign act to nail “The last nail in the Kirchnerism coffin”. The unit of a party more than 70 years old and among leaders who put their internal complaints in parentheses caused the opposite effect. In this way, a provincial election crossed its own limits to become an indication that something seems to have changed substantially in Argentina. The “enchantment” with Milei of a part of the disadvantaged stripes who led to their victory in the 2023 elections seems to have come to an end. The young people who were attracted to their verbiage two years ago did their backs because they did not cover or opted for the opposition. The idea that Argentina was going through a “Cultural Change” In favor of the capitalist Anarco program, Bruces has been given with the provincial results.
The main leaders of ultra -right blushed before the microphones when commenting on the political novelty. They did not expect such electoral slapping and the perspectives in October are not the most optimistic. Argentina is practically in recession. According to Carlos Melconián, a neoliberal economist, GDP per capita collapsed 11%. “Little is consumed, it invests little, produces little and exports little.” DIt is that milei governs about 200,000 jobs in the private sector. About 180,000 state workers were unemployed. They have closed about 15,000 small and medium enterprises. The minimum wage has fallen by 32%. In those numbers are part of the reasons for this Sunday’s results.
Peronism celebrated on Sunday night. He also did it from the balcony of the apartment where his household prisoner Cristina Fernández de Kirchner meets. “Banalize and vandalize the Anymorewhich represents the cheaper and tragic period in Argentine history, is not free. Laugh at the death and pain of your opponentsneither. But pointing out with the finger and stigmatizing the disabled, while your sister charges 3% coima of her medications, is lethal. And I better not tell you how the rest is (those who still have work) … indebted by food, rentals, expenses or medications, and on top of the cards (of credit) burst … I left the bubble, brother … that he is putting heavy (very bad), “he wrote in X.
No only has Milei forgive. The Buenos Aires governor, Axel Kicillof He is the main winner of this pulse with the main executive authority and is emerging as a presidential candidate of Peronism for 2027. “It is a repairing joy, we came to stop this government. It will have to rectify the course. I hope Milei’s call, have the courage and courage to call, work and agree.”
The Buenos Aires have voted with more disenchantment and fury than illusion. The debacle can be worse because the government lacks tools to sustain the price of the dollar. Milei said that an apex will not move its currency containment plan. The 12,000 million loan of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) It has evaporated in the attempt to prevent the American currency from jumping through the air. The next hours will be key to knowing to what extent the president has the tools to support his programmatic building.
