The closing of the elections is experienced with a tense calm at the Hotel Libertador, in downtown Buenos Aires. Among foreign guests checking in and checking out, the first representatives of La Libertad Avanza arrive and immediately go to the 18th floor where Javier Milei is with his sister Karina.
Minutes before the polls closed, Guillermo Francos, Ramiro Marra, Santiago Caputo and the Mendoza representative Carlos Balter arrived. When asked about the expectation about the result, everyone limited themselves to pointing out that they had received the same exit polls that circulated throughout the afternoon in the different WhatsApp groups. “Maximum caution,” members of the La Libertad Avanza team were heard saying as they walked through the hallways of the Hotel Libertador.
Córdoba Avenue, near Maipú, is slowly filling up with supporters of the candidate Javier Milei who, after voting, went back to his hotel room to wait for the result.
Nicolás Posse, the potential Chief of Staff of a hypothetical Milei Government, also arrived around 6:40 p.m. and went to meet the candidate, waiting for the first results from his witness tables, which he says are waiting for the 7:30 p.m.
In the first minutes of the election closing, anxiety covers the surroundings and interior of the hotel.
