Just elected president of Argentina, Javier Milei spoke to his supporters this Sunday. “The impoverishing model of caste is over, today we are adopting the model of freedom, to become a world power again,” he said.
Argentina’s president-elect, ultraliberal economist Javier Milei, said Sunday evening in his victory speech that “today begins the end of decadence” and the “reconstruction of Argentina.”
“It’s a historic night for Argentina,” Milei told several thousand supporters at his campaign HQ in Buenos Aires, after his big victory with more than 55% of the vote.
“We are facing monumental problems”
“The impoverishing model of caste is over, today we are adopting the model of freedom, to become a world power again,” he continued. “Today one way of doing politics ends, and another begins.”
“We are facing monumental problems: inflation, stagnation, the absence of real jobs, insecurity, poverty and misery,” listed the president-elect. “Problems that will only have a solution if we once again embrace the ideas of freedom.”
“There is no room for gradualism, there is no room for lukewarmness or half-measures,” warned the man who for two years has been advocating shock therapy for an economy exhausted by inflation. chronic, now at 143% over one year.
He reached out to “all Argentines and political leaders, all those who want to join the new Argentina”, but also warned of possible social resistance to his reforms.
“We know that there are people who will resist, who will want to maintain this system of privileges for some but which impoverishes the majority. I tell them this: everything that is in the law is permitted, but nothing (of what is) outside the law.
Javier Milei will assume the presidency on December 10, succeeding Peronist (center-left) President Alberto Fernandez.