Javier Milei: “Today’s reconstruction of Argentina begins”

La Libertad Avanza leader Javier Milei won more than 55.70% of the vote, while Massa received 44.20%. It should be noted that the libertarian achieved victory in Tierra del Fuego, Santa Cruz, Chubut, Río Negro, Neuquén, La Pampa, CABA, San Juan, Mendoza, Catamarca, La Rioja, Tucumán, San Luis, Salta, Jujuy, Chaco, Córdoba, Entre Ríos, Corrientes, Misiones and Tucumán.Hours after Sergio Massa conceded defeat, the president-elect spoke alone on the stage of the Hotel Libertador: “Today is a historic night for Argentina. Today, the reconstruction of Argentina begins. Thank you to the team that has been working for two years to achieve the miracle of having a libertarian liberal president. Thanks to the LLA and PRO prosecutors who put their bodies on the line to defend the votes. The votes were there but they had to be taken care of and boy did they take care of them,” he said and thanked Mauricio Macri and Patricia Bullrich who “selflessly put their bodies to defend the change that Argentina needs.” Today marks the beginning of the end of Argentina’s decadence. Today we begin to turn the page of our history and resume the path that we should not have lost, today the impoverishing model of the omnipresent state that only benefits some while the majority of Argentines suffer ends. Today, the idea that the state is a booty to be divided among politicians and their friends is over. Today, the view that the perpetrators are the victims and the victims are the perpetrators is over. Today we resume the path that made this country great, today we once again embrace the ideas of freedom, the ideas of Alberdi,” he said. The results of this model are there for all to see, from being the richest country in the world today there are 130 of us, half of Argentines are poor and 10% are indigent. Enough of the model of impoverishing caste, today we once again embrace the model of freedom to return to being a world power,” he said. In addition, he invited others to join: “All those who want to join the new Argentina will be welcome, no matter where they come from, no matter what they have done before, no matter what differences we have. I am sure that what unites us is more important than what separates us and that will make us stand up and become a power again. Whenever they want to join the change that Argentina needs, they will be welcome. We know that there are people who are going to resist, who want to sustain this system of privileges for some and that impoverishes the majority. To them I want to say: within the law everything, outside the law nothing.” Addressing the current government, he said: “We want to ask you to be responsible, to understand that a new Argentina has arrived and to act accordingly, to take responsibility until the end of the mandate of 10/12. The situation in Argentina is critical, the changes that our country needs are drastic, there is no room for gradualism, for lukewarmness, for half-measures. If we do not move quickly with the structural changes that Argentina needs, we are heading straight for the worst crisis in our history. We have monumental problems ahead of us, inflation, stagnation, lack of genuine employment, insecurity, poverty and destitution. Problems that can only be solved if we once again embrace the ideas of freedom, if those of us who want a different Argentina work together.” Minutes later, the president-elect spoke to the activists celebrating outside: “During the campaign we said that we were facing the most important election in the last 100 years, the turning point has arrived and we have just turned history around. Beyond the joy and honor of being the first libertarian liberal president in the history of humanity, I want to tell you that the feat that lies ahead is not easy. They are leaving us with a destroyed economy, with inflation that is traveling to 300% and on the way to hyperinflation, with a colossal fiscal imbalance, with price imbalances, with a whole series of problems in the foreign exchange market, with the debt, but I want to tell you something, we have the determination to put the fiscal accounts in cash, to fix the problems of the Central Bank. to get Argentina back on its feet and move forward. Beyond the euphoria and the enormous task ahead of us, remember that our model is based on unrestricted respect for the life project of others, on the principle of non-aggression and in defense of the right to life, liberty and property. There is hope because those countries that embrace the ideas of freedom are 8 times richer than the repressed ones.”

Original source in Spanish