By Stefano Pozzebon, David Shortell, Abel Alvarado, Eva Rothenberg and Heather Chen, CNN
Javier Milei has won Argentina’s presidential election with provisional results, pushing his country to the right with an explosive anti-establishment crusade that drew comparisons to that of former US President Donald Trump, all against the backdrop of one of the elections. inflation rate.
His rival, Sergio Massa, acknowledged the timing of the vote on Sunday night in a brief speech even before the official effects were announced. “Milei is the president-elect for the next four years,” Massa said, adding that he had already called Milei to congratulate him.
The provisional effects thus show Milei with more than 55% of the votes (13,781,154) and more than 94% of the votes counted, according to the country’s National Electoral Chamber, which has not yet announced an official winner.
Milei’s victory marks a normal rise for the former TV commentator, who entered the race as a political outsider with a promise to “break with the prestige quo,” exemplified through Sergio Massa.
His election promise to dollarize Argentina, if implemented, will propel the country into new territory: no country the size of Argentina has yet passed the reins of its own financial policy to policymakers in Washington’s array.
Shortly after the effects were announced, Milei greeted his supporters with thunderous cheers and applause as he climbed to the level and delivered a fiery speech, vowing to lead the country into a new political era.
“Today we turn the page of our history and return to the path we have never lost,” Milei said. “Today we return to the path that made this country great. “
Milei, a social conservative connected to the American right, opposes abortion rights and makes climate replace “the lie of socialism. “He promised to cut public spending through Argentina’s latest ministries of culture, education and diversity, and to cut public subsidies.
“Make Argentina again!” Trump posted on his Truth Social Sunday platform, in reaction to Milei’s victory. “I’m so proud of you,” he wrote.
The similarities to Trump have not gone unnoticed in the United States as the country prepares for its own presidential election. Milei has managed to attract attention in his country not only for his political taste – adding chainsaws and outbursts – but also for the novelty of his positions and his willingness to alter the prestige quoArray.
Echoing Trump’s slogan “Empty the swamp,” Milei’s supporters chanted “Let them all go!!and “Let them all go!” – an expression of fury at politicians on both sides of the spectrum. The Argentine left is lately in government, having been led by the right from 2015 to 2019.
Aside from his questionable dollarization plan, Milei’s political timetable includes cutting gun control regulations and moving authority over the criminal formula from civilians to the military; These two measures are part of a strategy to combat crime. She proposes using the public budget to help families who choose to educate their children in the private sector or even privatize the fitness sector, which in Argentina has been in the hands of the public sector.
Several candid comments have gotten Milei in trouble, but they haven’t deterred his most ardent followers. It caused quite a stir when it became known that Milei was in favor of opening a market for organ transplants; He later retracted his statements. He was also forced to apologize after calling Pope Francis, a native of Argentina and considered an icon of progressive politics in South America, a “messenger of Satan” in 2017.
Milei’s unforeseen political rise will come under intense scrutiny around the world as a possible sign of a resurgence of far-right populism in the region. Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro subsidized Milei’s candidacy, while leftist leaders in the region (they added current Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio Lula) da Silva and Colombia’s Gustavo Petro — abandoned a culture of hands-off to help Massa on the campaign trail.
Opinion polls have placed the two candidates neck and neck for weeks.
The candidacy of Massa, a longtime politician, came to constitute Argentina’s political status quo in the race opposite Milei. Inflation reached painful levels during his tenure as economy minister, up 142% year-on-year, but Massa argued that the existing government’s moves were helping to ease the pain, an argument that did not fail to convince an electorate exhausted by the accusation of living through the crisis. .
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