‘The Destroying Angel’ is such a movie Luis Buñuel It was taken while he was exiled to Mexico in 1962. It is the story of a petty bourgeois world that descends into a state of brutality in a mansion where food is scarce, water is absent and garbage accumulates. Argentinian writer and political commentator Jorge Asis He resorted to the name of that movie to christen him former right-wing president Mauricio Macri. It’s a way of describing a destructive impulse that, in his opinion, affects locals and foreigners alike. In addition to showing no mercy to his opponents, Macri also spied on his family, occasional allies, and traveling companions. Now the ‘angel’ has put its wings on the capitalist anarcho, Javier Milei.
He decided not to support her only in this area. Second round of presidential elections On November 19th. With the impulse that defines him, he suggests: shape the far right In his own image and likeness if he defeats the Peronists at the ballot box Sergio Massa. This support shared Patricia Bullrich, The Together for Change candidate left on the ballot box did nothing but cause the coalition to disintegrate. The centre-right sector fled in terror when it was the businessman’s turn.
Massa received 37% of the votes, placing him seven points ahead of his opponent. Milei in the first round. Bullrich received 23% of memberships. Even though Macri knows in advance that he does not own all these votes, he puts them at the disposal of the La Libertad Avanza candidate; especially in an election scenario marked by so much unpredictability that it confuses the majority. pollsters.
Al Capone as model
The former president admitted that he met with him Milei At least since 2021, he was already known for his harsh language. Justifying Al Capone Defying the State during Prohibition or accepting the sale of children. “Politicians don’t talk about time. Politicians talk about power,” said Carlos Pagni, a shrewd columnist for the newspaper ‘La Nación’, about the talks that took place away from prying eyes.
“Macri dreams of becoming the leader of a new right. The economist’s final victory on November 19 will be seen by the businessman as “his victory.” Another analyst, Diego Genoud, says the following about this brand new alliance: “It justifies Menemism (which reigned between 1989-88), approval of military dictatorship and its rejection of traditional political parties, Milei is a completely unlimited Macri“.
Opposition division
Together for Change has 10 provincial governors, 530 mayors, 93 deputies and 24 senators in the national parliament. However, this considerable power fractured as many important leaders turned their backs on this alliance on the right. Buenos Aires mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, whom Milei described as a “cockroach”, was one of the first to distance herself from him. “I won’t vote, I’m morally tired of society“said Elisa Carrió, representative of the opposition alliance. “madness” from its historical leader.
The Radical Civil Union (UCR), the centenary party that is also part of Together for Change, had already warned, without naming Massa: I would “never” support the far right in the second round. He made this public announcement last Tuesday, 40 years after the election victory of Raúl Alfonsín, a leading figure of the UCR, in elections that put the country back on the institutional path after seven years of military rule. “Democracy or dictatorship?” This was the dilemma that radicalism had planned at the time. This intersection now bears the name of Milei, who boasted of hitting the doll with the Alfonsín figure because he considered himself a communist. “I will do whatever I have to do to prevent him from winning,” said Gerardo Morales, governor of the northern state of Jujuy, one of the UCR officials.
Ecuadorian sociologist Jaime Durán Barba was the strategist of the campaign that made the businessman president eight years ago. He later served as his personal advisor. “So why didn’t Macri run for president? He didn’t run for president because he had terrible numbers, he was completely rejected“.
The far right also rebelled
According to the portal ‘La Política online’, Milei “gave in” to Macri but asked that there be no talk of a government agreement until after the elections. Economist does not want to give up his counter speech “political caste”, is strongly committed to his approach to the businessman. There was no shortage of expressions of dissatisfaction with this agreement within his might, the LLA. Milei went from being a dramatic character on television talk shows to a highly competitive candidate due to her outrageous speech, which resonated deeply with part of a society impoverished by the crisis. But now he’s trying to do it “tame” So that it doesn’t scare moderate voters so much. They will avoid comparisons for the remaining days of the election campaign. Donald Trump or Jair Bolsonaro. It was said that the model to be taken as an example would be a republican Ronald Reagan. Despite these makeover efforts, the far right still finds it difficult to let go of its original inspirations. In networks such as the USA and Brazil “micro fraud“vote.
Macri becomes radicalized calls to avoid Argentina becomes an imaginary VenezuelaIt provokes a danger that does not actually exist, the Kirchnerian danger. The power of the former president and the current vice president Cristina Fernández de Kirchnerhas lost its centrality. If Massa wins, this weakening aspect will become even more evident.
The Macri-Milei understanding will be tested at the ballot box. “We have to see what is heavier, the disappointment of those who have abandoned Milei, now seeing him as a fraud, or the reactionary force of the forces of anti-Peronism, which are now united against the project carried out by Massa,” Genoud said. Another factor that may change voting intentions before November 19 is the economy.