Milei launches her party at the national level in Argentina

Buenos Aires.The Argentine president, Javier Milei, launched his national political party this Saturday, with which, he assured, he will win the mid-term legislative elections in 2025 to gain power in Congress, where he has a minority.

At an event in Parque Lezama, in the center of Buenos Aires, Milei, a newcomer to politics who assumed the presidency in December, pointed out against the political “establishment” which he calls “caste” and against journalists, whom He called them “pieces of soretes” (excrement) and “corrupts.”

“We have formed the national party,” Milei announced euphorically before thousands of followers and a large part of his cabinet. “From here on out we are only going to have good news and in 2025 we are going to have an electoral setback,” he added in reference to next year’s legislative elections.

Currently Milei’s party, La Libertad Avanza, has a minority in both chambers of Congress, which makes it difficult for it to approve laws that it considers key to governing.

The event, in which the president began his speech by saying “hello everyone, I am the lion” and ended by declaring it to be “the best government in history that will sink the populists,” was reminiscent of the political rallies of the traditional parties of Argentina, with the presence of flags, drums and songs.

In any case, it had the particularity of showing followers dressed as lions and others wielding cardboard chainsaws, the tool used by Milei in the campaign as a way to illustrate his plans to cut the size of the State.

Since taking power, Milei’s government has pursued a tough austerity campaign, cutting billions of dollars in spending as part of a “zero deficit” plan to turn around an ailing economy.

“In the span of seven months, we made a fiscal adjustment of more than 15 points of GDP and thus avoided the worst crisis in Argentine history,” said Milei, an economist who calls himself “anarcho-capitalist.”

The launch of the party at the national level comes days after the release of official poverty data for the first half of the year, which showed that almost 53% of Argentines are poor, an increase from the 41.7 percent recorded in the previous half-year. , in a context of inflation that, although it has begun to decline, is 236 percent year-on-year, one of the highest in the world.