Will you jump into the void or into lesser evil? Javier Milei or Sergio Massa? The Argentines had a road map of the country that would emerge as of December 10. unpopular president Alberto Fernández give up power. The wait for the official review is marked by greater hope that the far right will triumph. The weight of discouragement was felt in the Peronist candidate’s bunker. This success was chosen as the minutes passed.
This Sunday, November 19, is unlike any other election day. Tension doesn’t just float in the air with the weight of a cruise ship for days. There are so many angry citizens Anxiolytics began to be lacking and other sedatives are sold in pharmacies in the city of Buenos Aires. Candidate and Minister of Economy of La Libertad Avanza (LLA), supported by traditional rightists A country where annual inflation is almost 150%They came to this point head-on. Those at risk are: two different types of fear: to the extreme right or the continuity of Peronism. Massa and Milei reached this stage in a virtual state of technical parity, at least for pollsters who sport misjudgement but have not lost their prophetic status.
Polls and analysts’ perceptions appear to align in some respects. Undecideds will define these elections according to the same voting scenario. Many citizens chose to arrive at polling stations quietly, without even responding to close relatives, for fear of condemnation or severing ties. Argentina was divided in two They have already overcome the Kirchnerism-anti-Kirchnerism polarization. And this noise is thunder at any moment.
Fraud allegations
“We did our best. Now let the ballot box do the talking.”After leaving the capital school, where she voted, Milei said: “We are very happy despite the fearful and dirty campaign they made against us. Now is the time for people to express themselves,” he added. WITHTrumpism and Jair Bolsonaro’s styleBy Friday, the far right had raised suspicions of “massive fraud” and received warnings from the electoral justice system due to lack of evidence.
“They accused us of fraud, and those who tore the ballot papers or tried to disrupt the transparency of this democratic election process also accused us. We want to say that even if the ballot papers were torn, they are valid,” said Malena Galmarini from Massa. after his wife condemned isolated acts of vandalism.
Massa’s vote
“We are determining which country we will visit over the next four years,” Massa said. “We are starting a new phase in Argentina, and this requires intelligence and capacity as well as good will, but above all it needs dialogue and consensus so that our country can follow a much more virtuous path in the future.” Massa said he hoped the outcome would bring “peace, hope and a future that finds us better and more united.”
According to political commentator Horacio Verbitsky, 35.4 million voters decide on the Peronism and LLA case, even though the ballot papers say Unity for the Fatherland “Between Relief and Nightmare.” The future president will take the reins of a devastated country, more than 40 percent of which are poor, four decades after the institutional change led by Raúl Alfonsín that ushered in the democratic transition after seven years of alleged military dictatorship. The far right, especially vice presidential candidate Victoria Villarruel. After exercising his right to vote, the lawyer did not miss the opportunity to criticize human rights policy. “It’s inappropriate to make posters about thirty thousand missing people in a kindergarten.” and Never Again. It’s like going to the cemetery and painting Barney the Bear,” said the daughter of an Army officer who participated in the seventies repression and refused to swear the oath to Magna Carta while Alfonsín ruled.
The weight of the past
Although two generations of men and women had not yet been born when the last dictator, Benito Bignone, handed over leadership to the first democratic president, judgments about the past assumed unprecedented weight in electoral processes in Argentina. In 1983, Milei was only 13 years old, two years older than her rival. What the candidates have in common is that they represent a break from the fame of the previous generation, the former presidents. 70-year-old Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and businessman Mauricio Macri, who is six years younger than her.
Jorge Fontevechia, director of the newspaper ProfileHe recalled that on the eve of the conflict there were two signs that appeared to be “coming from heaven” for Catholic believers. At an opera evening at Teatro Colón, the audience booed Milei. Showing his disdain for the culture, Milei had to listen to more than Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly. During halftime they shouted at him, “Never again” and “You are a dictator”. “As if the most cosmopolitan segment of Argentine society did not want to repeat the mistakes of the past.” Fontevechia said he “perfectly” understands “a mother and father who are both working and unable to meet all of their family’s economic needs.” Rising inflation shows that democratic consensus values may be an abstraction or a problem only for those who have solved the most fundamental problems. They are reduced to the superficial talk of Milei, who promises “easy and quick solutions”.
According to Verbitsky, none of today’s competitors would have reached the decisive stage. Due to the economic situation, Massa and Milei with proposals such as blowing up the Central Bank, transferring the country’s monetary sovereignty to the North American Treasury Department, selling organs and allowing the free carrying of weapons.
Joaquín Morales Solá, newspaper columnist People Beyond knowing the name of the winner, he emphasized that “what lies before us is a presidency with significant fragilities in parliament.” The next president must learn or renew “the ability to endure political negotiation.”