2023-11-13 11:50:35
The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, already led the way after the first round in Argentina, which left the Peronist Sergio Massa and the ultra Javier Milei as finalists for the second. Ayuso, at that time, was in favor of “a political change in Argentina.” When asked about the surprising victory of the Peronist candidate, the regional president recalled that “there is still a second round,” on November 19. Next, Ayuso said that “nothing would be more desirable than political change in Argentina.”
Ayuso added: “I think that what was one of the most prosperous countries in the world cannot continue to fall, fall and fall while more and more Argentines come to live among us asking us to open our eyes, not only because Spain is experiencing a similar drift, but because at the moment in which all lines have already been crossed, political alternation becomes more complicated.” Ayuso insisted that Argentina “was one of the most prosperous countries in the world but today it has unaffordable and unacceptable rates of poverty and economic misery.” “That is why I want there to be a change in Argentina and that is how I will speak out whenever they ask me,” he insisted.
Along with Díaz Ayuso, the leaders of the Spanish extreme right have come out in support of Milei, such as the president of Vox, Santiago Abascal: “Congratulations dear Javier Milei for yesterday’s historic feat. Never has so much been done in such a short time. “You have all our affection and support in this fight to open that long-awaited chapter of freedom and prosperity in Argentina.”
congratulations dear @JMilei for yesterday’s historic feat. Never has so much been done in such a short time. You have all our affection and support in this fight to open that long-awaited chapter of freedom and prosperity in Argentina.
— Santiago Abascal ???????? (@Santi_ABASCAL) October 23, 2023
Rajoy’s support in the final sprint
The former president of the Government Mariano Rajoy has shown his support for the presidential candidate for La Libertad Avanza, Javier Milei, in the second round of the Argentine elections that will be held on November 19. Rajoy is one of the signatories of a manifesto that is also supported by the writer Mario Vargas Llosa, as well as eight former Latin American presidents.
The text defends that Milei is the “hope for change” in the face of the “Kirchnerist space” represented by the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, of Unión por la Patria. The signatories support Milei’s option, despite the “many differences” that separate them from the candidate, because the ultra-liberal believes in “the ideas of freedom and has a very accurate diagnosis of the country’s economic problem.” “He has managed to gain the support of a good part of the voters of Together for Change, especially based on the express support that several of his main references have given him,” the text says. They add that Milei “represents hope for change in the face of the continuity of the ‘Kirchnerist’ model.”
The statement, which was shared on social networks by La Libertad Avanza, the space led by Milei, has been signed by former presidents Mauricio Macri (Argentina); Iván Duque and Andrés Pastrana (Colombia); Felipe Calderón and Vicente Fox (Mexico); Mariano Rajoy (Spain); Jorge Quiroga (Bolivia); Sebastián Piñera (Chile); Luis Fortuño (Puerto Rico) and the Peruvian writer and Nobel Prize in Literature Mario Vargas Llosa.
“The only way out for Argentina is with political and economic freedom, respect for the rule of law and private property, and with the rules of the game of liberal democracy, the social market economy, social justice and modernity,” they assessed. “It is our hope and desire that Argentines democratically eradicate at the polls the model that ties them to populism, economic backwardness and political authoritarianism and, finally, opt for change towards freedom, progress and justice,” they concluded.
We thank the former Presidents Mauricio Macri, Felipe Calderón, Iván Duque, Mariano Rajoy, Jorge Quiroga, Sebastián Piñera, Vicente Fox, Andrés Pastrana, Luis Fortuño and the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa for supporting the candidacy for President of Javier Milei. pic.twitter.com/XMN55YPvRB
— La Libertad Avanza (@LLibertadAvanza) November 12, 2023
The signatories have pointed out that ‘Kirchnerism’ has “hegemonized” the political life of Argentina during the 21st century and now aspires to obtain “a fifth term” with Massa, the candidate being the Minister of Economy who has led the country to “a triple-digit inflation, record poverty over 40% and unemployment that is barely disguised by welfare and social plans.”
“Massa represents the continuity of a failed corporate economic model and institutions that, instead of allowing Argentina to grow alongside its neighboring countries, have kept it in permanent stagnation for months,” criticized the statement, which has reiterated that Massa’s economic policies have been “rampant inflation, widespread poverty and the economic anguish of millions of Argentines who see their standard of living collapse daily.”
Along these lines, the former presidents have emphasized that Massa’s policy “starkly proposes the confusion of State-Government-Party, using all the mechanisms, organizations and economic resources that should be at the service of citizens as a battering ram against the opposition.” . “As a bargaining chip for clientelism and as a beachhead for his militancy, a version of La Cámpora that revolves around him,” he compared.
He also reproaches that Massa’s project “is nothing more than the original of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner: achieving political hegemony by dint of budget and punishment of the opposition.” At the international level, the signatories have regretted that ‘Kirchnerism’ has associated Argentina “with the worst governments on the planet”; the “regional dictatorships” of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, in addition to “allowing the entry of narcocriminal gangs that have settled in the country, putting the State’s law enforcement forces in check,” as they have denounced.
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