Javier Milei did it. Against almost all previous forecasts, his candidate, the spokesman Manuel Adorni, gave the Batacazo defeating the Peronism and the list sponsored by Mauricio Macri in the elections that renew benches in the Buenos Aires legislature. With 30.13 percent of the votes, the libertarian won Leandro Santoro de Unión for the homeland – which obtained 27,35 – already Silvia Lospennato, the Pro applicant who finished third with 15.92. The a priori play seemed dangerous because freedom progresses and the yellow divided the votes of antiperonism by not going in an alliance, with which Santoro appeared as the favorite in most of the surveys, which again erred ugly.
The euphoria in the Mileista bunker of the Libertador Hotel was a patent. “Today the yellow bastion was painted as a violet,” Bramó Milei, making it clear that he cared more to defeat Macri than to prevent a Peronist from winning in the city. Instead, Adorni did remain faithful to the campaign Speech: “It was Kirchnerism or freedom, and today he won freedom.” And invited the defeated of the PRO: “Tabula Rasa, the accompanying is welcome.” The most acclaimed of the night was Karina Milei, defined by her brother as “the great architect” of triumph.
The comfortable third place obtained by thepennates is a malazo for Macri and the PRO and almost a political death certificate. 18 years ago the yellow had been governing and gaining election after election in the city, the place that saw the space of the former president born. Now, the bastion – the only one they had – just fell. When Milei’s operators are asked about Macri’s future after that failure, the response of the record is very crudísima: “death or exile.” It is a metaphor, of course: either they withdraw or will go for it. Even in the Government they would have already demanded that Patricia Bullrich that the deputies responding to break the PRO block in an imminent way.
The previous elections was dyed by the scandalous video fake in which a Macri designed with artificial intelligence announced that the candidacy of thepennate went down to prevent Kirchnerism from winning in the city and called to vote for adorni. That dirty campaign piece was disseminated in his accounts by the digital lieutenants of the star advisor of Milei, Santiago Caputo, including “El Gordo Dan” and Alejandro “El Galleguito” Álvarez. The former president initiated a cause in the electoral justice so that the video came out of circulation and complained: “It is a thing of loquitos.” Could it have cost you decisive votes? With Monday’s newspaper, they claim yes. Because, before that, almost no survey gave Adorni as a winner.
The Santoro, anyway, is a moderate proller in a historically antiperonist territory, where the last candidate of that party who won an election was the Menemist Erman González in the legislative of 1993, 32 years ago! The second position obtained positions him as a sung applicant of his space to the Head of the Buenos Aires Government in 2027.
Those who also had an expectant Sunday are two characters that broke with their respective spaces. The first, Ramiro Marra, founding partner of La Libertad advances and recently expelled by Sister Karina Milei, presented her own list and stayed outside the legislature with 2.62 percent of the votes, occupying the sixth place. Those Blue suffrages of the libertarian spectrum in the end did not need Adorni. The other protagonist who did savored his vendetta is the former mayor of Porteño Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, who – enforced with Macri from the yellow internal of 2023- They would not have been enough to leave second. If the votes achieved by Adorni, Lospennato, Rodríguez Larreta and Marra are added, all positioned on the right side of the political board, the result gives more than 55.
In the prelude to the elections, Macri and Milei collided strong for the failed sanction of the law of clean file in the Senate, which would have prevented him from being a candidate for Cristina Kirchner, who has a conviction appealed to the Supreme Court in the road cause. Macri accused Milei of knocking down the project with the votes of two missionary senators who respond to the strong man of that province, Carlos Rovira, a strategic ally of the president. Milei replied that the pact to drop the law was between Macri and CFK itself, a nonsense. The former president closed the discussion accusing him of a liar and saying that he felt “an infinite disappointment.” There is no return between the two referents of the national right.
Now, after the couch suffered by the PRO in its territory, the discussion will be transferred to the province of Buenos Aires, the place that for its population density defines everything. In the libertarian command they aspire to add two figures of the PRO, Diego Santilli and Cristian Ritondo, to the ruling campaign, but behind Macri. Will it be the aforementioned agreement between freedom advances and yellow? Actually, the plan is that they pass from the side and paint violet in order to finish displacing to Macri. Santilli could occupy one of the first places in the libertarian ballot – he intends the first – and Ritondo sounds like possible campaign shipowner. The former president will do everything he can to boycott that move with the little power of fire that he has left.
The irrespirable climate that society lives today in full libertarian expansion became the moment that Milei went to the UTN headquarters and accused a TV mobilero of hitting him intentionally with the microphone, and also when, then, one of the table prosecutors refused to something as basic as shaking the hand of the president, what earned him the immediate Bullying of the trolls of the trolls officials in the networks. Hot scenes of an Argentine game in two.
The other alarming fact is the very very participation that the elections had, only 53 percent. Almost half of the Buenos Aires chose to stay at home, a clear sign of what political scientists define as democratic dissatisfaction.
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