2023-11-08 03:03:57
This would be the first meeting between Jaime Bayly and Javier Milei before the Argentine presidential elections. Photo: composition by Gerson Cardoso/LR/El Periódico
The Peruvian journalist Jaime Bayly interviewed the presidential candidate Javier Miley, of whom he considers himself a fan, even openly highlighted being “right-wing.” The recording of that first meeting between the writer who lives in the United States and the leader of La Libertad Avanza began with compliments between them. “You are going to be the next president of Argentina. “I have that hunch,” Bayly said.
Between smiles, Milei responded that she did have every chance of achieving it with her team. Likewise, she highlighted the 54% of votes obtained on Sunday, October 22 and that it is the “first time that a libertarian liberal has those percentages worldwide. “It’s something historic.” Continuing with the interview, they talked regarding the opponent for the second round of elections of November 19 and current Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa.
Criticism of Massa: “Minister of Economy who has not been able to control inflation”
Jaime Bayly questioned the high number of votes obtained by Sergio Massa, who has been “Minister of Economy for more than a year and has not been able to control inflation and devaluation,” he said. In that case, the question arises as to how he will achieve it if he wins the elections, if as head of the sector he might not achieve it.
Milei immediately responded that there is a complaint once morest Massa for buying votes. “There is precisely a question that you cannot make announcements that can have electoral impact and he has been doing it recently. I think he has handled that very skillfully. He gave a lot of money, GDP was spent for the elections. “It is several billion dollars,” explained the far-right.
Massa won the first round of the elections in Argentina with 36% of the votes. He will contest the runoff with Milei in November. Photo: LR/EFE composition
However, for Milei, that would be a “brainwashing” by Massa. “You have to look at it in historical perspective. That Peronism got 37% of the votes is low, it is the worst election they have made in their entire history. Therefore, from my point of view, one has to look at it with that logic. There is a whole brainwashing process that makes them inclined to embrace socialist ideas,” he added.
“The caste model” in the Argentine economy, according to Milei
Javier Milei details what has been the mechanism of your opponent: “What he did was put money in people’s pockets. Suppose you have nothing to eat, nothing, zero, then now someone comes and gives you money. What does it matter to you if that money came from printing banknotes at the Central Bank? That generates inflation and the money that you are going to receive is actually going to be less than what you think you are receiving,” she pointed out.
“But what’s the point? When you have a situation as miserable as Argentina has, where today you have more than 40% poor, more than 10% destitute, 2/3 of young people aged 0-14 are poor. In that context, when you dissect money. Since monetary policy acts with delays, then suddenly that hits 18 months from now, but In the short term you get the feeling that your pocket has gotten bigger. enormously, and they go and vote. But ‘ once morest nothing’ is better than ‘nothing once morest nothing’. It is a perverse system. We call it the caste model,” he explained.
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