To extrapolate Spain, the difference between what elections in the Autonomous Community or District of the Capital of one country or another should be understood before. While it is true that in ours it is the constituency that has the most volume of voters, so it is in the case of Argentina. But with a big difference.
Of the more than 37 million Spaniards called the polls in 23J, in Madrid there were more than five million. That is, it welcomes almost 14% of Spanish voters. Buenos Aires is not that it raises that proportion, the catapult when representing the Great Caladero: in its register are the names of more than one third of the entire Argentine population (37%). This is the letter of presentation with which Freedom advances (LLA), the party of the president of Argentina, the Anarcoliberal and Ultra Javier Milei, has reaped its first great electoral defeat in the legislative of Buenos Aires.
However, beyond what suits the surface of an electoral batacazo and the image of Javier Milei himself recognizing the first great defeat of the party that boosted him to the Casa Rosada, in this pass through poll Kirchnerism. After 20 years in power, this interruption of the Argentine left – today grouped in homeland – is shorter than the libertarians believed and stayed only in 4 years.
The president of Argentina and leader of La Libertad progresses, Javier Milei, in his speech of recognition of the defeat against Peronism in the regional elections of Bueno Aires; at the headquarters of the game in La Plata.
Milei speaks of “self -criticism” and “correct errors”, but will not keep the chainsaw that already punished him in Congress
Although it was a regional electoral appointment, Milei has gone to face tonight in the headquarters of the libertarians in La Plata. As was predictable to the bulkyness of a 33.82% defeat against 47% of Kirchnerism, the Argentine president fulfilled the political topics and in front of the lectern recognized “without any doubt” what he described as “a clear defeat”, speaking of “self -criticism”, “deep analysis” or “correcting those things in which we have been wrong.” But the key was what he said to the line often and that points to some political contradiction. There will be no reverse in government cuts policies.
All this has a lot to do with the next great election event. October 28 is the day marked in red in the Argentine political calendar, since it is when the legislative elections that -in a reflection of the mid term of the American system will renew in the middle of the congress. And the importance is extreme, if attended to the context of the latest great measures that were submitted to the vote of the parliamentarians and in which there were collapses, the major, which.
That the Milei government could not save its veto to the norm that had already planted the opposition in July is only the icing of a trail of legislative failures, which in the last year has evidenced the greatest weakness of freedom progresses. The one that did not rise to power with a sufficient voting of votes to execute and maintain their ultraliberal program, always needing the other political spectrum against which he has always charged in the ascent from the sets to politics: the traditional Argentine right.
This next electoral event will also be the first major fire test, at the state level, to know what invoice the coalition to the conservators of the PRO has passed, the Macrismo -Carnada in figures such as the Minister of National Security, Patricia Bullrich-, fundamental to sustain the policies of cuts and austerity of freedom progresses. In a context, in which other leftist or center formations are also upwards in Buenos Aires, leftist front (4.36%) or we are (5.33%). But it will also really know what the Argentine people from the Milei chainsaw, already with several years of use, after having tried it.
In fact, if these provincial elections are analyzed as a turning point, there is an immediately previous one that already made the worst fears sprout within the Milei Executive. On August 20, on the same day in which Congress blessed the emergency law of disability. Because? Because that law, despite the name, rigged more issues, so many that it ended up becoming a kind of amendment to all of many of Milei’s policies.
In addition to guaranteeing subsidies to people in dependency, this standard also forces to update monthly fees of the benefit system and supposed to put back a good part of the cuts in this social sphere, as well as annul the cancellation of more than 100,000 pensions. In other words, the conservative partners who were letting Milei take these measures throughout the mandate, left him in the lunge in a context of pressure and signaling in the streets who did not vote in favor of this law. But to all that a very symbolic scandal was added. On that day in which the emergency law of disability was voted, one transcended one.
From cryptophaf to the audios that brought to light the alleged corruption of the Argentine government
The other great key that emerges from the defeat of the Argentine ultra -right connects with the aforementioned greater scandal that corns the Milei brothers -with permission from the soufflé undone of the -a series of filtered recordings A, a channel of streamingwhich point to an alleged network of corruption with the provisioning of the medicines of the National Disability Agency (Andis).
In these recordings, the former director of the agency, Diego Spagnuolo, is listened coimas (bites). Although it also implies Milei as a connoisseur of that alleged corrupt plot, to whom they place the recordings in the center of this is the Secretary of Presidency and Sister of Milei. “Karina arrives 3% and 1% goes in the operation,” was heard to say Spagnuolo in the audio.
When the Milei government really understood the damage that these audios were causing him and with this Sunday’s election appointment in Buenos Aires approaching on the horizon, it was already late. His first reaction, on the same day, was to fire Spagnuolo – despite being a man very close to Milei, intimate, since his inception – and ensuring that everything was a montage of Kirchnerism. He did not hesitate to use an alleged hard hand against his former companion and former director of Andis as an electoral promise, promising to take him before justice -while strangeness would be that he did not do it. But the Carnival channel continued to harm, by publishing new Karina audios that did not contribute anything incriminatory, but showed that it had been recorded in their own office.
With the electoral appointment even closer, Milei changed her strategy. His sister, Karina, claiming protection of her right to privacy and honor achieved a whole judicial feat with a decision emanating from the first instance, claiming that the publication of her audios in the future be stopped in the future, without knowing even if they exist. A judge accepted by putting the shiver and warning that he was not incurring an act of censorship, deferred?
On the part of the Argentine president there was a script and what was initially an opposition assembly, it ended up being an “illegal intelligence operation”, in order to “destabilize.” And pointed to the assumptions responsible, both within their allies, to the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich; Like journalists and “people linked to Russian intelligence services with an incidence of Venezuela.”
Within that framework, the people also experienced a kind of ‘seeing God’. Already with an important bulk of the surveys augating the victory of the opposition in Buenos Aires, Milei checked first hand that not everything is exits in international scenarios and photos with other ultra leaders. , usual fief of Kirchnerism in which Lla sought to improve its results, given the obvious parliamentary weakness. Both he, as his sister, and the libertarian candidate had to be evacuated.
They were not the only images of hard protests against Milei. In March there were and tense moments in Congress and, of course, police charges on the street. Thus, an investigation commission of the case of the Memecoin That Milei recommended acquiring but turned out to be a fiasco in a matter of hours, and in which they surprised the explanations with which he tried to go out to the criticism and reactions of those who lost great quantities in the operation.
“A few hours ago I published a Tweet, like so many other infinite times, supporting an alleged private venture that obviously I have no link,” he explained, wielding that “I was not internalized from the details of the project and after having internalized I decided not to continue to disseminate (that’s why I have erased the tweet).” In the time it took in ‘internalize’, 250 million dollars vanished. He came to defend that he had no responsibility, since in the description of his account in X he read “economist”, instead of president of Argentina.
Next month, the world will verify if Milei actually achieves a vote of renewed and greater confidence that really allows you to ensure its chainsaw and cuts policy or if, on the contrary, it is again closer to just being able to put that profession in your description on social networks.
