The ultra -rightist president Javier Milei has suffered a resounding defeat in the legislative elections in the province of Buenos Aires, where 38% of the population of Argentina lives. With 13 points of difference, Peronism, gathered in Patria Force, has obtained 47.2 % of the votes compared to 33.7 % of freedom progresses (lla). The left -wing Peronist governor Axel Kicillof emerges as well as the main opposition figure.
In the bunker of his party in the city of La Plata, the provincial capital 50 kilometers south of Buenos Aires, Milei has recognized, visibly nervous: “Today we have had a clear defeat. Today we have had an electoral setback and we have to accept it. They have put into play the entire Peronist apparatus. It is a floor of which we will start working for October 26 (national legislative elections). In the face of the future we will correct all our mistakes”. Among the officials with long faces that accompanied him were not present his Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, nor the Chief of Cabinet (Ministers), Guillermo Francos.
However, President Ultra seemed to forget the self -criticism and then said that they will continue for the same economic direction and even “we will accelerate and deepen it.” “Not a millimeter in government policy is not receded. We will continue to defend the fiscal balance and maintain the exchange scheme we are committed to Argentines.”
The market reaction on Monday is discounted that it will be negative: the Caputo team costs it more and more to sustain the value of the peso against the dollar. The government began to intervene last week in the exchange market selling treasury dollars to contain the depreciation of the weight, which had been accelerating in recent weeks despite the high interest rates.
One year and eight months after Milei came to power, the draconian cuts implemented by the National Government were paid by anyone except the political “caste.” At this time his sister Karina Milei is in the eye of the hurricane after the revelation of a scheme of corruption in the public purchase of medicines in the area of disability. In the collective imaginary that is effectively the caste.
What was voted
The province of Buenos Aires contributes more than 30% of Argentine GDP and brings together 38% of the national electoral roll. This election renewed 26 positions in the Senate of the Buenos Aires Legislative: 13 obtained Patria Force; Eight Freedom advances and five the Centrodecha We are Buenos Aires alliance. Of the 46 deputies of the Provincial Legislature, 21 were for Patria Force, 18 for Lla, 5 for Somos Buenos Aires and two for the Left Front and the workers.
Beyond the seats in dispute, the elections were closely followed by their symbolism and because the strategy was nationalizing them. However, the difference between the opposition and the LLA was much greater than that anticipated by all surveys and the participation reached 62% of the electorate.
Of the eight electoral sections of the Province of Buenos Aires, Ella lost for ten points in the first and for 25 points in the third-the two represent 70 % of the register-but also reaped losses in the second, fourth and eighth. The third section is the area where Peronism is almost unbeatable from the return to democracy: the list presided by Vice Governor Verónica Magario defeated 53 % to 28 % to lla.
The president’s party, who had said that with this election he would put the “final nail to the Kirchnerism drawer”, he only managed to impose himself in the fifth and sixth electoral sections.
Resilience
In this mid -term electoral test, Peronism shows resilience and goes on the offensive, in an attempt to close long internal disputes. Kicillof, the winner of the night, is the one who decided to separate the provincial legislative elections of the nationals of October before the refusal of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
Therefore, before the governor spoke from the stage mounted in La Plata, a message from Fernández de Kirchner was heard, who is serving house prison and is the president of the party. The ex -president said that the province of Buenos Aires “put a limit to the president” and that is why Milei “has to listen to the province.”
“Borón Bombón, is for Axel, driving,” shouted the followers of the governor, in allusion that he is outlined as the renewal of leadership in Peronism, in the face of the presidential presidential And a thousand times.
The governor emphasized that Milei the electorate gave him a message: “He will have to rectify the course. The public works cannot be stopped, the retirees cannot be hit, the people with disabilities cannot be abandoned. The polls shouted that the health, education, science and culture cannot be definant in Argentina. You cannot govern with hatred, abuse and insults.” And he also said that he expected the president’s call to work together.
This hard setback for Milei, converted by the same president into the mother of all battles, has been the prelude to the national legislative elections of October 26.
Source: www.eldiario.es
