The hectic exfiltration of Javier Milei last weekend after being stamped at the end of a meeting, went around the world. It alone sums up the violence of the campaign where the opponents of the Argentinian president will have spared her nothing while this Sunday, municipal, municipal and legislative elections, anticipated in the province of Buenos Aires, the most populous region of Argentina.
Until then disunited and powerless in the face of Javier Milei’s charisma and good economic results, “The opposition gives the impression of wanting to exist in a media in physical and verbal confrontation”explains to the Tangwall Campagin Roberto, mileist voter of the Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires. “Some peronist activists are real mafia who seek provocation in certain districts and can be very violent”adds the latter.
An investigation targeting Karina Milei
By drastically cutting into public spending to reduce Argentina’s deficit, Javier Milei was not just friends. Especially in the province of Buenos Aires, peronist bastion. It was not necessary to make the slightest deal instrumentalized by his opponents to weaken him. Especially if one of them concerns his sister, Karina Milei.
At the end of August, an investigation was opened after the dissemination of an audio recording where a voice awarded to the former director of the National Handicap Agency accuses Karina Milei, current secretary general of the presidency, of having touched 3 % of the purchase of drugs from a pharmaceutical firm, Suizo Argentina. Of the ” lies “ swept Javier Milei while his sister was a complaint for “Illegal espionage” And that Manuel Adorni, the government spokesman, accused the opposition of “Political maneuvers”.
The fact remains that this supposed affair of corruption falls at the worst time for the Argentine president. “He had made the fight against corruption his trademark, he said that it was the problem of the political caste. We can see that it could come back to him in a boomerang ”tell the Tangwall Campagin the economist on the left Hernan Letcher. Enough to electrify the opponents of Javier Milei.
Starting with the governor general of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof. For the leader of the Fuerza Patria party, Sunday’s election has the value of an electoral test, just before the mid-term legislative elections on October 25. Certainly, his assessment is not very glorious for the time being. In its province, the crime rate has exploded. But if his party was to win this Sunday, he could, at 54, establish himself as the real leader of the opposition. “Our victory, this weekend in the region, will force the government to stop its adjustment policy. All these ignorant economists really think that by applying Orthodox recipes, our economy will work as a developed country? And all this by advocating free trade in a protectionist world »he still quipped during a recent television debate.
The incredible ascent of the liberal leader could stop
For Luciano Roman, editor -in -chief and editorialist in conservative daily Nacion,, “Kicillof wants to establish himself as the man of renewal, but he is only the worthy representative of the racing past of Kirchnerism. He was secretary for economic planning and development, then Minister of the Economy of the former president Cristina Kirchner, with a disastrous country management that we still pay. It was he who set up the calamitous nationalization of the oil company YPF who ruined the country … Then he was governor of the province to the orders of Cristina. To summarize, he was his most faithful ally. And today, to take the leadership of the opposition, he tries to make people forget this past. »»
Slight advantage of the presidential camp
If this weekend’s ballot promises to be tight and could well mark a stop at the incredible political ascent of the new world liberal leader, a survey published this week by the DC Consultares Institute gives a slight advantage to the presidential camp. Indeed, 53 % of respondents say they are ready to vote for representatives of the Libertad Avanza party against 47 for the Peronist Front. But opinions are versatile in Argentina and Buenos Aires could well resist the mileist wave long awaited by the Argentine president during the national ballot next October, to renew the congress and continue his liberal reform plan.
