The radical populist libertarian Javier Millay became the president of Argentina

2023-11-20 10:25:11
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The radical populist libertarian Javier Millay became the president of Argentina

The new president of Argentina is the radical right-wing libertarian Javier Millay, who promises to save the economy from triple-digit inflation and recession, and the country from increasing poverty, Reuters reports.

 

According to official data, Miley won almost 56% of the vote, while his rival, Minister of Economy Sergio Massa, got 44%, which surprised sociologists because Miley was trailing Massa according to polls.

 

Hundreds of Miley's supporters in downtown Buenos Aires chanted his refrain against the political elite - "down with them all" - and set off fireworks to the sound of rock music playing from loudspeakers.

 

Masa congratulated Miley and declared that "from tomorrow, all responsibility for ensuring certainty will rest with Miley, who must demonstrate his willingness to lead."

 

The new president plans to shock the economy - to close the Central Bank, abandon the peso and cut spending. But the voters, dissatisfied with the economic crisis, agreed to such painful reforms.

 

The new government will receive an empty coffers of the government and the central bank, a problematic debt to the IMF of 44 billion dollars, inflation of almost 150% and a complex set of measures to control the flow of capital.

 

Miley is a representative of the middle class, his father was the owner of a bus transportation business and often beat his son. An 11-year-old boy was hurt the most when he said that the Argentine military junta's decision to go to war with Britain over the Falklands would end in defeat because of the countries' unequal capabilities. In the 1982 war, Argentina lost, and the leaders of the junta lost power and stood trial.

 

Miley got the nickname "Crazy" when he was a goalkeeper for a professional football team in his youth. And they began to call him "Lion" for his hairstyle with sideburns, which he was inspired by Mick Jagger. Miley led the rock group Everest, which covered the hits of The Rolling Stones. Since then, he wears a leather jacket and calls himself an Anglophile culturally.

 

In an interview with the Economist, Miley talked about his "anarcho-capitalism" as follows: "we consider the state to be a criminal, violent organization that robs honest people. Therefore, we believe that, ideally, society will function better without the state than with it."

 

He admits that there are no examples of such projects, but he hopes that new technologies will allow the creation of such a state. He considers Ireland to be an example of economic development, which has become a hub for global IT giants.

 

Miley opposes abortion, gender education in schools, denies global warming, supports free gun ownership, calls the Argentine Pope Francis "the representative of evil on Earth", who loves "communist killers", denies that the war of the Argentine military junta with the left-wing opposition in 30 thousand people died in 1976-1983. He shares the views of former US and Brazilian presidents Trump and Bolsonaro and promises to replace friendship with China and Brazil, led by communist Lula da Silva, with stronger relations with the US and Israel.

 

At the same time, Miley strongly supports Ukraine and even participated in support measures at the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation.

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