Mr Milei’s rival, economy minister Sergio Massa, called him to concede.
Former US President Donald Trump congratulated Mr Milei on his victory, saying he would “Make Argentina Great Again!”.
The election comes at a difficult time for Argentina with rising inflation and an economy in crisis on peoples’ minds.
Mr Milei’s proposals, which included detonating the central bank, won support with voters desperate for change…
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Hey! That’s not fair!!
He wants to make selling human organs legal. That’s…a policy.
On social issues, he wants to loosen gun laws, abolish abortion - which was legalised in Argentina in 2020 - and allow the sale and purchase of human organs.
An anarchocapitalist against access to abortion? I hate this century so fucking much.
Wow the
blackwhite market for organs is going to be crazy.
It’ll go like shit, the way it always does when people vote right-wing.
But for a bit of fun, be sure to ask any right-wing reactionaries what conservative leader actually made their country a better place – they all have an answer they want to give, but they know they can’t say it out loud.
After years of tripping over their own feet Argentina opts to shoot itself in the dick because change.
Ok.
It’s a great country and Buenos Aires is a wonderful city but hoo boy this is … not likely to go well.
Desperate people resort to desperate measures when normal approaches fail. The ruling class forcing our countries to their bidding, against the interests of common people, are the cause for this.
And now they’re going to steal everything you have left with this clown’s help.
There are a small subset of the population that are voting for these clowns for exactly that reason… They are accelerationists. They want the 1% to steal the remaining piece of the pie from the 90% because people won’t fight for change unless they are literally starving.
This is happening world wide; not everywhere but many places, and I wonder if the old style jubilee will be demanded.
I’m not Argentinian
Desperate people resort to desperate measures when normal approaches fail.
Oh great, that NEVER backfired massively.
I’m not saying it’s wise or right, just a natural consequence
And being anti-disestablisment has never caused or enabled very serious real world problems.
The good news is that if you like Buenos Aires you’ll be able to buy it for yourself soon
Former US President Donald Trump congratulated Mr Milei on his victory, saying he would “Make Argentina Great Again!”.
I’d love to see where Trump thinks Argentina is on a map.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know when Argentina was “great”?
Between 1860 and 1930:
Between 1860 and 1930, exploitation of the rich land of the pampas strongly pushed economic growth.[3] During the first three decades of the 20th century, Argentina outgrew Canada and Australia in population, total income, and per capita income.[3] By 1913, Argentina was among the world’s 10th wealthiest states per capita.[4]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_Argentina
And then of course beginning in 1945 the ratlines assured the freedom of many nazi war criminals in Argentina. There are plenty of reasons for Trump to like Argentina during the first half of the 20th century.
Juan Peron loves him some Nazi war criminals.
Humanity is so goddamn stupid
I’m astounded that people still aren’t aware that “right wing populist” means “your life will get harder”.
For Argentinians, always has been. Harder yet since 4 years ago
lets see what that guy do outside change name of coruption to lobby.
I just hope that in the long term the country can finally liberate the people who are currently economically dependent on the state. So they can find their own economic path, no matter who is ruling.
They always give you money in Argentina. For exchange of a future vote, of course. But nobody really cares about giving you a way out where you are in charge and capable of finding and getting your own work and opportunities.
And the inflation, as always, eats the lowest class first, the one that has less opportunities to find a new job. And less capable of saving money. Remember that. The very high inflation is indirectly murdering people.
if he’s like every other right wing populist, the poor will have it even harder. All for the rich, baby! Oh, and his own pockets will be filled.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Far-right libertarian outsider Javier Milei has won Argentina’s presidential run-off poll, according to provisional results.
Mr Milei’s proposals, which included detonating the central bank, won support with voters desperate for change.
No matter, in a country where annual inflation is now over 140% and two in five people live in poverty, his win proves that Argentinians are fed up with traditional politics and economic disaster.
Posting on X, he said the US would “look forward to building on our strong bilateral relationship based on our shared commitment to human rights, democratic values, and transparency”.
South American leaders have also been commenting on Mr Milei’s victory, with Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva posting: "I wish good luck and success to the new government.
But Chile’s President Gabriel Boric said he saluted Mr Milei “for his victory and Sergio Massa for his worthy recognition of defeat”.
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Good bye Malvinas
Argentina’s been so wrecked by the Peronists that this is the one place in the world where bringing in a “hard right” president may not be a bad thing. Milei probably doesn’t have the right personality, or enough backing in the legislature, to have a successful presidency. But the alternative was worse.
Germany was so wrecked by World War 1 that some people might have thought bringing in a “hard right” chancellor might not be a bad thing.
What is it they say about those who don’t learn from history?
1930s Germany isn’t always the best analogy for every situation anywhere, anytime. For one thing, the Weimar government was actually doing a decent job of rebuilding its economy after the war; they were kneecapped by the onset of the Great Depression, which was not their fault. Without Hitler, Germany would have eventually turned the corner and headed for economic prosperity.
In Argentina’s case, the problems are the direct result of the Peronists’ decades-long dominance, and their uncanny ability to adopt every single bad idea on the economic left. Without getting rid of them, there’s no future for the country.
good i heard ton of german go in that country after ww2
lol what a short sighted comparison to make.
How do you think people who are otherwise intelligent fail to learn from history?
If you don’t have an answer, you’re not smart enough to learn from anything, let alone history.
The comparison is absurd. Argentina is plagued by a political ideology that has been there for around 100 years and it is the only reason why the economics always fail. The only way to break the cycle is a complete revision. I don’t really like Milei, but the alternative is the same dead horse from the last century. Comparing this to Germany electing Hitler is shortsighted because the only similar things are crisis + big savior leader. I am watching closely what Milei will do, but he has promised in his winning speech to abide by the rule of law.
I dare to say you are someone sitting in a first world country pretending to understand the situation here. I invite you to read what happened under his opponent only in the last year. People are getting poorer by the week.
Milei might not be the best out there, but he’s the best chance we have for fresh start.
Once again, you are demonstrating how people fail to learn from history. “It cannot happen here.” is RIDDLED throughout history from writings of those who chose to stand aside for dictators and other authoritarians. Do you think every single one of them didn’t have valid seeming reasons to dismiss the seemingly pessemistic view? “Yea it kiiinda’ looks the same, but it cannot happen because the specifics are all different!”
I heard this CONSTANTLY from Hillary and Bernie or Bust people. “It cannot happen.” Yea sure, buddy. Keep assuming most people are logical, see how that plays out. I desperately hope I do not get to say, “I told you so” yet again some day.
Because the vast majority of people aren’t intelligent. Most people barely subsist in western society, let alone take the time to study history and politics, let alone stay up to date on current events.
Sure, fascism is totally a solution. Worked every time it’s been tried so far, right?
Just once I wish Argentina chose to not be a cautionary tale.
But since we’re here, Americans should watch this space very carefully during the next year or so.
I feel like Americans know very well how this ends after living with Trump for 4 years… The ones that should’ve known better were the Argentinians.
You would think, but then you look at the polls.
To be clear, I don’t think it was worth doing this to Argentina just to have a visual aid for US elections. I’m just looking for silver linings here.
And even those I’m not super hopeful for. You’d think Argentina would have looked at Trump and Bolsonaro themselves. But nope. It seems every country needs to try the “at least the far right nutcase isn’t like the boring guys who brought us to this point” thing. Sometimes multiple times.
Those polls are fucking bullshit, especially for a lot of demographics like younger generations and also it’s a fucking long way away still.
If you’re looking to draw conclusions based on that trash you may as well just ask any goddamn child; neither represent fact or reality
Mkay.
As long as you redirect that rage towards voting for whoever runs against Trump I don’t much care what motivates you.
Americans already had the chance to learn from Trump and Bolsonaro. Those who support Trump are not interested in reality.
And will the people who should learn from this do so? Fat fucking chance.
This dude is hearing voices, man
That was fake news; he had a bad signal in his earpiece during an interview. Milei has enough wacky qualities (like whatever the hell is going on with him and his dogs) without dipping into misinfo.
I assure you, at no point in human history, has anyone on the right ever acted for the good of the average citizen.
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