https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/23/sergio-massa-wins-first-round-argentina-presidential-election-over-javier-milei
Potty-mouthed political outsider will head to November runoff with centrist finance minister Sergio Massa
Thank God. Let's hope he doesn't win public office. The world can't survive any more fascist right wing nuts in office.
The though of a shithead that "talks to his deceased dog thru a medium", has a "council of dogs" as counselors, that wants to legalize selling babies and organs and wants to destroy everything public being so close to winning is nightmare fuel.
The problem is that you need competence in government to get people to accept it as a solution. If everyone in government is an idiot, you aren't going to get people to trust in government solutions as an answer.
It's always the same problem: if there are no controls everything goes bad. Doesn't matter if it's something public, private or in-between.
The answer is putting controls so the very moment it starts to go bad it can be corrected.
That is a super fascist rehtoric. And in the case of Argentina highly supportive of corruption.
Control must come from justice, not from political expending.
And who said "from political expending"? I say controls. Like internal affairs is to the police. I think we can all agree every politician has to be accountable for his/her decisions, don't we?
The guy he lost to is the current Minister of Economy...
In the past 4 years Argentina devalued its currency by 750%. Poverty climbed 15% to almost 50%. Inflation is about 140% annually. Minimum wage is $115 USD and going down. All while middle manager politicians travel on holidays in private jets, spending 20k USD on a single day. With declared incomes of 1000-1500 USD per month. Over the last 10 years.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The eccentric far-right populist Javier Milei has failed to win the first round of Argentina’s presidential election, with the centrist finance minister Sergio Massa unexpectedly beating his radical challenger.
Addressing hundreds of euphoric supporters at his campaign HQ, Massa gave a sober speech vowing to lead a national unity government that would kickstart “a new phase in Argentina’s political history”.
The result leaves Argentina poised for another month of profound uncertainty, economic turbulence and fake news before the showdown between Massa and Milei, a libertarian economist who only entered the world of politics when he was elected to congress in 2021.
Marcela Pagano, a television journalist running for a place in congress for La Libertad Avanza, predicted angry voters were poised to “boot out” the traditional politicians many blame for plunging 40% of citizens into poverty and triple-digit inflation.
Prominent members of South America’s extreme-right flew to Argentina hoping for a Milei triumph that would boost their movement after its leading light, Brazil’s Bolsonaro, lost power last year to the leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in October 2022.
Massa and his allies stepped up their campaign after Milei’s stunning victory in August’s primary – a dress rehearsal for the election – scrapping income tax for most citizens and seeking to distance themselves from former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
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Well, he's still going to the runoff. And the guy he's running off with isn't THAT much better from the sounds of things.
But still good that he's not an instant win.
