The former president of Argentina advised the economist in recent weeks, playing a fundamental role prior to the elections
Three weeks ago, on October 22, the results of the first round of the Argentine elections They surprised by scoring the Peronist Sergio Massa in first place with 36.8% of the votes, while Javier Milei finished in second position with 29.9%. The candidate of the JxC party (Together for Change), Patricia Bullrich, finished third with 23.8%. The day after the primaries the meeting of the ultraliberal with former president Mauricio Macrione of the leaders of the JxC party, anticipated what many suspected was going to happen: the support from Patricia Bullrich to the economist.
On October 25, social networks, which played a fundamental role in the liberal libertarian campaign to capture the young votewere revolutionized after Milei published an animated image on her X and Instagram accounts in which a lion hugged a duck, and Milei was nicknamed “len” and Bullrich the “duck.” making the union between the two official. Minutes later to this publication, the Together for Change candidate gave a conference in which she called on Argentines to vote for the candidate of the LLA party (La Libertad Avanza).
In those weeks of consensus between the two parties, whose sole objective was erase Kirchnerism from the electoral mapMacri suggested to Milei that she lower the levels of effusiveness in her speech and act with more calm when facing the public. There were less than three weeks ahead that would be crucial, in which the economist had to convince more than five million people that he was the best candidate to govern the country.
The last days before the second round saw a gagged Milei and much calmer in his oratory clarifying that would maintain public education and health, when at first he had stated that he would privatize them, something that generated an exchange of opinions among Argentines. Furthermore, he stated that not promote a free market for weapons and human organs, other of the proposals that most scared millions of Argentines. All these changes in his speech reflected a different Milei, capable of capturing the votes that he needed so much if he wanted to become the main leader of Argentina.
In the second presidential debate last week Massa tried to provoke Milei on more than one occasion, but the libertarian liberal remained calm and did not enter the game of the Union for the Homeland candidate. Media such as Clarn or La Nacin gave the Peronist the winner of the debate, however this change in behavior in the lion influenced Argentines to vote for the economist as their president.
The ultraliberal won by more than 11 points of difference to his rival, a difference unthinkable days before when the main pollsters of the South American country gave Milei the winner by only two or three points. The request of Mauricio Macri and Patricia Bullrich to the voters of the Together for Change party had direct influence on those more than six million Argentines who elected Bullrich on October 22. If in the primaries Massa obtained 9,853,492 votes, Milei 8,034,990 and Bullrich 6,267,152, you only need to do the math and see that The vast majority of those who voted for Bullrich in the primaries chose Milei, since in the second round the economist garnered 14,476,462 votes. This explains the large difference of almost three million votes that existed between both candidates.
However, having discarded some of its most extreme proposals, such as an organ or weapons market, does not mean that Milei will not fulfill its other promises. In fact, yesterday you already warned that you would make a very strong adjustment: Try to sell public companies and privatize several Argentine companies such as YPF (Fiscal Oilfields), public TV – historically related to Kirchnerism -, National Radio and Tlam (National News Agency).
During Massa’s tenure as economy minister, inflation doubled, and the price of the blue dollar (parallel dollar) quadrupled; three million people became poor and 10% of the population entered the poverty line. The Argentine people said enough and launched a new proposal, totally different from what previous governments have been doing. A fed up country that chose a new course with Milei as president.
