At the event, Fernández also accused the candidates of denying the country’s economic situation and climate change.
The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, accused this Monday (September 4, 2023) the candidate of the La Libertad Avanza party (in Portuguese, Freedom Advances), Javier Milei, and his running mate, Victoria Villarruel, of denying the military dictatorship and climate change. The information is from the newspaper El Litoral.
“It is not an easy time, but in difficult times, one speaks the truth. We are not deniers of the economic situation, of climate change, of the dictatorship that this nation has lived through. Denialists are others, those who talk about freedom.”he said.
Fernández made the remarks during the delivery of 788 homes in the Pocitos and Las Pampas neighborhoods of San Juan, accompanied by the acting governor, Sergio Uñac, and the Minister of Territorial Development and Housing, Santiago Maggiotti.
Without directly mentioning Milei, the Argentine president said that “when [eles] they say they are going to reduce state spending, I want you to know that 70% of spending is on pensions and people in need”.
“What are you going to do? They think a bank will build these houses. We need to get out of Buenos Aires and see Argentina.”he said.
Fernández also adopted the concept of “caste” used by Milei and highlighted: “We are also not part of a caste protected by those who say they are against caste. The Argentine economic caste is the one that delays the development of the country”.
Sergio Massa, current Minister of Economy and government candidate in the 2023 presidential elections, is supported by Fernández and represents the Unión por la Patria coalition. Milei led the primary elections –held on August 14– with 30.06% of the vote. The percentage is insufficient to be elected in the 1st round. Massa won 21.4% of the votes and came in 2nd.
WHO IS MILEI
Javier Gerardo Milei is 52 years old, has a degree in economics and led with 30.4% of the votes in the primary election of August 13, 2023 in the race for the Presidency of Argentina. He is on the right on the ideological political spectrum, with liberal ideas on economics. He advocates closing the country’s central bank, ending the peso and using the US dollar as the local currency.
The candidate is running for the Casa Rosada by the coalition “La Libertad Advances“ (in Portuguese, Liberty Advances). Milei defines herself as “anarcho-capitalist” It is “libertarian” – is against state interference in society and in favor of the free market system. He says his program will be a “chainsaw” to cut public spending. He claims that global warming is a lie, is in favor of selling organs and defends non-compulsory and private education.
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