whatHow does someone who never did politics do politics? How does an outsider lead a list in an election in Argentina? There are two ways. One is obvious: put together a party and present himself, as he once said Cristina Kirchner. This is the most logical option, the one that claims to have its own platform from which to compete. It is also the alternative that can contain a loyal militant nucleus.
The other way is the one you chose javier milei. It’s a curious fact from the start. The economist had the option of the Libertarian Party at hand, the space in which he held an important part of his campaign in 2021 and of which he has been honorary president since the start of 2019.
By the time the charts closed this year, the “PL” already had legal status in seven provinces and almost 4,000 affiliates in Córdoba and Buenos Aires, just to mention a few cases. It was not only the most logical option, but the one that over and over again recommended him to follow mario russo, who was the strategist during his first political adventure, a professional consultant who worked in the campaign of Durán Barba and Marcos Peña in 2015. “Javier, you need the kid who in 2023 will serve as a soldier in a small town of ten inhabitants, even if you are going to get a single vote. You need the convinced, the one who won’t abandon you, the one who won’t shit on you. You need the Libertarian Party”, he told him on a dozen occasions.
Russo failed to convince the current deputy. In fact, like so many others, he is no longer part of La Libertad Avanza. The same thing happened with the Libertarian Party, which -with the exception of San Juan- was ousted from each of the provincial armed forces, while its militants were also expelled. was una razzia that began at the beginning of 2022 and that the black monk of space commanded, Carlos Kikuchi. It was also in that unexpected curve that a debate that today haunts Milei and her family grew. It is the ghost of the sale of candidacies.
Cash. The accusations about this modality go through La Libertad Avanza. Although the reports are varied, the practice that is denounced is quite similar: a franchise system within the space, in which the usufruct of Milei’s image can be accessed – plus an occasional visit from him if all the travel and accommodation costs of a delegation that does not fall below 14 people are fully covered – in exchange for a payment in dollars.
It is a modality that they already denounced Carlos MaslatonMilei’s former ally, Juan Carlos Blumberg (who assured that “50 thousand dollars” were requested for a councilor position), Silvina Soria, that he was a militant in Avellaneda (“they asked for 60 thousand dollars”, he advanced in this medium), Maria Laura Montenegreither in Villa Gesell (he spoke of “30 thousand dollars”), Paola Miersformer candidate in San Juan, and mila zubriggen, former president of the Libertarian Youth, among others. In addition to the cash payment, there was another format, which was denounced by both Carlos Eguia, who was a candidate in Neuquén, as Rebecca Fleitasdeputy from Buenos Aires: that priests of La Libertad Avanza demanded that they “deliver” the advisory contracts that correspond to each legislator.
This debate has now reached Comodoro Py, in a case that he is investigating the prosecutor Ramiro González. Milei, who denies all the accusations, at first celebrated that the complaint was taken by the Justice but then changed his mind: he says that it is an undue interference of that State power in his campaign. It is clear that the film is just beginning.
