The citizens renewed their confidence in Milei to make Argentina great again
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By Santiago Santurio, Argentine deputy from La Libertad Avanza, and Santiago Muzio, director of Casa de la Argentina in Paris, for La Derecha Diario.
La Libertad Avanza, Javier Milei's party, achieved a landslide victory on Sunday night in Argentina's partial legislative elections, securing nearly 41% of the seats out of the 127 positions at stake (the Argentine Parliament is renewed by halves every two years).
Just as in the November 2023 elections, the vast majority of the press and political analysts had predicted a defeat. However, we won again!
These elections were crucial. Javier Milei's program is based on three pillars: the defense of life, liberty, and property. It seeks to return to Argentines what was confiscated from them by a political-media caste that governed the country for decades.
To reduce the weight of the State on the shoulders of citizens, President Milei established a golden rule marked by common sense: the State must not spend more than the resources it has.
Deficits are tomorrow's taxes. The word "deficit" has been banished forever from Argentina's political vocabulary. Thanks to his work since 2023, and for the first time in 123 years, Argentina joined the very select club of the few countries that present a fiscal surplus.
During his two years in office, Javier Milei crushed inflation, which fell from 270% to less than 25%; he reduced public spending by 30%, durably returning purchasing power to Argentines.
Javier Milei junto al ministro caputo.
He lifted 1.7 million children out of poverty: the rate, which was 53% of the population, has now dropped to 29%. Public debt is also decreasing: it represented 88% of GDP and fell by more than 10 points in two years, standing at around 78%. Insecurity has receded. As a result of all these measures, economic growth will rise to 5.5% in 2025 and is estimated between 4.5% and 5% for the following year.
It is necessary to understand, in order to properly value this record, that all this was achieved with only 6 senators out of 72 and barely about forty deputies out of the 257 that make up the Lower House, that is, with less than 10% of the living forces of Parliament.
To counteract Javier Milei's excellent management, the Kirchnerists and their allies found a stratagem in recent months: to use Parliament, where they were the majority, to pass laws that forced the State to increase public spending, in order to return Argentina to deficit.
Javier Milei, elected with more than 56% of the votes, thus found himself a hostage of the political caste still present in Congress, which, against the popular will, passed laws with the sole purpose of obstructing his government program.
The Argentine Constitution grants the president a right of veto over laws adopted by Parliament. However, Parliament can override that veto if it votes the law again with a two-thirds majority. At the height of their political violence, the Kirchnerists and other left-wing parties forced the approval of fiscally costly and useless laws, later blocked by Milei.
Javier Milei en Rosario.
The goal of these midterm elections was to grant the president a sufficient majority so that he would have the necessary parliamentary tools to implement a second wave of structural reforms that Argentina urgently needs. The goal was achieved.
With 101 deputies from La Libertad Avanza, not counting other forces with which alliances could be formed, Javier Milei can now move forward with confidence during the remaining two years of his term, without the systematic opposition of Kirchnerism undoing what Argentines elected him to do.
What was at stake yesterday were two distinct and irreconcilable visions of the country. Argentines had a clear choice: either the return to left-wing populism that, with its tax burden and socialist redistribution, led the country to ruin and misery, or to continue the reconstruction begun two years ago.
The decision of Argentines was forceful: they chose liberty and confidence. Argentines reaffirmed the project embodied by Milei, rejecting Kirchnerism, allied with the Venezuelan narco-state and all left-wing dictatorships.
It is a historic turning point for our country. Kirchnerism has been rejected by the majority of Argentines, who understood that their parliamentary maneuvers only sought to prevent the implementation of reforms. The next reforms will focus especially on taxation, to reduce taxes, and on labor flexibility, to allow Argentina to grow and for Argentines to see their purchasing power increase.
El presidente Javier Milei.
Two key factors contributed to the victory. On one hand, Milei's implementation of a new electoral system that guarantees democracy. To eradicate ballot stuffing and the disappearance of ballots, there are no longer as many ballots as candidates, but a single sheet that brings together all the names. Voters mark their choice on this certified ballot, which prevents electoral fraud.
On the other hand, the cultural battle tirelessly carried out by Milei also bore fruit. He made Argentines understand that, in order to grow, it is necessary to restore the culture of effort; that corruption is not the solution; that it is better to tell the truth, even if it is bitter, and accept it, than to live in a comfortable lie.
That it is impossible to erase in just two years the consequences of decades of decadence and decline, but that it is possible to begin to take the right path to get out of the swamp of populism and socialism. That, with the effort and work of everyone, it is possible, even if the task is colossal, to lift a country.
To lead these labors of Hercules, Argentines renewed their confidence in Javier Milei yesterday. There is no doubt that, with such a leader, Argentina will be prosperous again and will show the path of liberty not only to Argentines, but to the entire world.
