Milei closed the Buenos Aires campaign in La Plata and destroyed the communist Axel Kicillof.

At Club Atenas in La Plata, before a large group of supporters and amid a strategy aimed at transferring prominence to provincial candidates, President Javier Mileiclosed the Buenos Aires campaign for La Libertad Avanza. The event, initiated by Sebastián Pareja—the main provincial organizer of the group—was designed to give visibility to the eight lists that will compete in the elections on September 7 and to encourage participation in a scenario of electoral apathy that, according to the organizers, harms the opposition.

Milei began his speech by highlighting the polarization with Governor Axel Kicillof and directing a series of epithets at him: he accused the provincial leader of "psychologically manipulating the population" and described him as "the dwarf communist Kicillof." "Few remember a time when the Province was worse off than now," he stated, and added: "We have the added problem of the constant denial and indifference of a provincial government that seems to believe what their paid journalists repeat like parrots. Buenos Aires residents are so used to it that many have given up and stopped believing in a better future."

The president focused his analysis on the provincial administration and what he described as a decadent "populism": "Four decades of populism have turned Buenos Aires Province into a national disgrace," he said. In that vein, he argued that Peronism carried out "a plan of planned human misery" and pointed to issues related to insecurity as an example: "The province's crime statistics keep rising, with La Matanza having the highest homicide rate in the country, almost six times higher than Rosario's," he stated.

Milei combined his criticism of the governor with attacks on figures from Kirchnerism. In several veiled and direct references, he alluded to former president Cristina Kirchner with irony: "We're already starting with the boss of the gang," he said from the stage; and in another intervention he stated: "What can we discuss with people who set up a VIP vaccination center for their friends" and "What can we expect from people who stole so much and so shamelessly that now they can only go out on the balcony to greet the two people who come to visit them." He also linked the fentanyl scandal to "cover-up" and questioned: "Do you think it's a coincidence that the judge handling the case is precisely the brother of Kicillof's health minister?"

Before the President's speech, which was scheduled for 7:30 p.m., the Buenos Aires candidates spoke. The mayor of Tres de Febrero and candidate for the First section, Diego Valenzuela, stated: "Argentines already know, thanks to President Milei, that fewer taxes mean more jobs. The State must be reformed and the accounts put in order. We already did it in Tres de Febrero and we want to do it in many more places." Valenzuela emphasized measures on security and tax reduction: "To overcome neglect, we're going for more security. Those who commit crimes will pay. Always on the side of the victims. We're going for more jobs. We must eliminate the absurd taxes that exist in Buenos Aires Province."

The full list of slate leaders mentioned at the event was as follows: Diego Valenzuela (First section), Natalia Blanco (Second), Maximiliano Bondarenko (Third), Gonzalo Cabezas (Fourth), Guillermo Montenegro (Fifth), Oscar Liberman (Sixth), Alejandro Speroni (Seventh), and Francisco Adorni (Eighth). Each of them participated in the event and took turns speaking before the national closing.

Among the speeches, Maximiliano Bondarenko's stood out, as he appealed to the supporters to "protect the votes": "I'm a police officer who's come to do politics. I'll be a watchman my whole life, unfortunately. I'm not going to tell you what life is like on the street, you know it better than anyone. Each of us is a ball in a lottery drum for criminals. Every day they're spinning it and drawing a number," he said. "The only thing I ask of you is this: on September 7, feel empowered as if you were a soldier of San Martín to protect that vote, which will get us out of this. You are the ones responsible and the protagonists," he added.

The event was held under the slogan "Kirchnerism Never Again," a motto with which La Libertad Avanza launched its campaign in the province. Milei referred to that slogan on stage when the audience chanted "Never again, never again."

In his speech, the President also attacked the press, which, according to his account, would have collaborated with the continuity of Kirchnerism: "Kirchnerists and Kicillof's government used their countless paid spokespeople to promise Buenos Aires residents paradise. They promised so much and delivered so little that the only way for people to believe them is if there's no one else in the newspapers, in classrooms, on social media, or on television itself saying anything different, that's why they keep paying everyone off," he stated.

Milei, meanwhile, insisted on social and educational issues and cited data on literacy and learning: "Schools are falling apart. Our young people aren't learning, given that 45% of primary students in the province don't understand basic texts and 86% don't reach satisfactory levels in mathematics. That's why it's not surprising that the governor can't even add with an abacus. He adds with difficulty," he stated.

The President also referred to provincial and municipal spending: "He decided to spend millions of pesos on gender policies that solve nothing except the economic well-being of his friends... spending, for example, billions of pesos on streaming for cronies that no one listens to," he said, and criticized what he described as a network of phantom employees and favors in public administration: "The State is for his friends. Starting a business in the Province is a Greek odyssey. Or an administrative tangle that, regulation after regulation, hinders wealth generation and demands bribes to solve problems they themselves create."

During his speech, Milei recalled a previous commitment: "Not long ago I promised not to insult, and I thank you for that because I noticed I was giving critics of my style a refuge so they wouldn't discuss the real content... That's why, no more insults and from now on let's discuss the ideas you don't have and that we do have," he stated.

The event's closing returned to the call to go to the polls. Milei asked Buenos Aires residents to go out and vote on September 7: "Staying home isn't an option... going out to vote means not being deceived. It's saying 'enough' to the ongoing scam subsidized by distorting taxes," he said, in a final appeal to mobilize his base.