President Javier Milei listened carefully to the speech that Cristina Kirchner gave on Saturday in the municipality of Quilmes, in what was the first public appearance since the libertarian leader assumed the first office. The notes, to which she accessed Infobae, show that there is recognition in the head of state that he does not have with other political leaders. Both for considering her the main person responsible for the current state of Argentina, and for identifying her as the exclusive reference of the opposition. Of all the speech, There was one phrase that stood out above all the others..
In the notes, Milei highlighted concepts from Cristina Kirchner’s speech, confronted ideas and at the same time exposed the compelling perspectives for a way of understanding politics and the economy that he rejects and fights. In the interviews he gave this Sunday, Milei confirmed that he would not see an electoral confrontation between the two as bad at all. as a final battle between “freedom and populism”.
At the beginning of the notes, Milei defined what Cristina presented as management synonymous with “destruction”, work as equivalent to the proliferation of “gnocchi” and works as, simply and simply, “choreo”.
True to his style, between the university professor and the sharp debater, the president reflected on Cristina Kirchner’s message as a “national chain” in which the former vice president referred to the “anarcho-capitalist experiment” as a “useless sacrifice” . He mentioned the 2,308 suspended public works, of which 119 were projects in universities and was struck by the mention by the leader of Unión por la Patria that we are facing “the goose game, returning to its beginnings in 2003.”
For Milei, the criticism raised by the two-time president and last vice president of Alberto Fernández “they have no support” when he referred to the non-existence of a surplus due to the alleged non-payment of Cammesa, public works, transfers to the provinces and money from the universities.
And one of the definitions that most differentiates them caught his attention: “The problem of believing that the deficit is the problem is not understanding Argentina and its economy and the world.” This is one of the “heresies” that Milei most questions about the economic thinking – which he defines as “impoverishing” – of Kirchnerism, since he considers that it is in this imbalance where the rest of the economic evils originate.
“Ad populum fallacy”Milei wrote among her notes, referring to Cristina Kirchner highlighting that only three countries in the world had a surplus. This is one of the arguments that the president points out when ideas such as dollarization or the elimination of the Central Bank are questioned because “no one applies those ideas.” One of the examples that the president usually mentions to refute this argument is that Argentina abolished slavery in the Assembly of 1813, when the majority of countries not only tolerated the trade in people but promoted it as a central part of their economies.
He highlighted to the president that Cristina Kirchner will speak 21 years after her government was applying “the same policies as yesterday”, with privatizations, labor reform, tax reduction and that “everything was private”, even retirements.
“Historical feat (JM) vs 6 years of NK + CFK”, can be read among the notes to which Infobae had exclusive access. And there appears the phrase that the head of state highlighted the most. It is the same one that also impacted the main media that covered the re-entry of the former vice president: “60% of the votes may have voted for you but then when you are in government, people starve, lose their jobs, unemployment increases, they can’t make ends meet. What’s the point?”
That was the definition, throughout the summary, that Milei highlighted in a special way.
On the third page, of the five that the president occupied, he underlines the question “What is ANCAP?” Anarcho-capitalism – hence the abbreviation – is the set of economic and political ideas that appears furthest from the postulates that Kirchnerism has been applying since 2003 and that has found evident exhaustion in the last four years, both in terms of results and for the electoral defeat.
The president took note that for Cristina Kirchner, the possibility that recovery and growth come from the oil, gas, mining and rural sectors would turn Argentina into an “extractive economy without added value” that – in the opinion of the former president – would configure a “pre-capitalist” system, in the style of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. “Anarcho-Colonialism” is the definition that CFK gave and that Milei highlighted.
In addition, the president noted as relevant phrases the recognition made by Alberto Fernández’s former vice president that the previous administration left “poor registered workers,” although he described it as a less bad phenomenon than unemployment. “Unemployment worse than low salary,” Milei highlighted.
For the former president, it was also important that in her speech, Cristina Kirchner criticized the idea of “non-market failure” that Milei maintains. In Milei’s notes and the vice president’s words there is a back and forth between two leaders who recognize themselves as antagonists of power and the narratives that shape the present.
“The President’s problem: the market does have failures and businessmen are heroes: I am dogmatic,” wrote Milei and wrote that phrase that is a registered trademark of CFK, since he usually repeats it in public and in private that refers to the alleged error of “adjust your head to the hat: if the hat doesn’t fit, make your head smaller… make the hat bigger.” For Milei, this idea, linked to fiscal adjustment, was “a false analogy.”
Milei paid special attention to Cristina’s statement that her group was not going to accept “if they want to turn the country into an extractive economy without a middle class.” And the phrase that she seemed to seek a slogan that did not permeate the militancy or social networks. “Not from colony again.” For the president, they are ideas that sought to insist on “closing the economy.”
In the final section of the speech, the president highlighted that the vice president spoke about the criticism that his own people made of him about “CFK’s manners and mistreatment.” “Next to mine, a lady,” she wrote caustically. Afterwards, she gave a long account of the former vice president’s statements and questions regarding energy policy and pointed out the “contradiction” in her view of a key sector for the economy.
In the last notes, Milei stressed that the leader of Unión por la Patria linked growth to solving the energy equation and that there was a specific reference to the educational issue. Regarding the latter, the president was struck by the fact that Cristina Kirchner referred to the fact that in the schools, supposedly, there was no “indoctrination” and that this situation is what allowed him to be president. And that she believes that if the education of before had existed in Argentina, “JM would not be President.”
As a “final touch”, Milei identified that Cristina Kirchner spoke about the march of the university students last Tuesday as a “mobilization of Argentine society, large transversal” and that the country needs “an easy and simplified tax system”, as well as “ “educational financing” guaranteed for the coming years.
Milei’s notes on Cristina Kirchner’s speech show that for the president there is a tension and a dispute that, beyond the actors and the particular ideas that surround the political scene, has both leaders as the main antagonists of the drama of the power in Argentina.
In that sense, Milei He confessed that he wants to compete against her in the next presidential elections. “Would be wonderful”he stated in an interview with the journalist Ignacio Ortelli for Radio Rivadavia. “It would be wonderful to face Cristina,” remarked the head of state after the two-time president’s questions during her reappearance in Quilmes.
The head of state stated that “it would be hilarious” to win the elections, which would also imply “putting an end to the darkest history of Argentina after the dictatorship.” According to him, during the reappearance of the former vice president “the only thing she did was make criticisms that, those of us who have read things over time, can infer that she continues to embrace a model that destroyed Argentina.”
“They’re nervous”stressed and insisted that his figure maintains a high level of acceptability, based on different surveys, and stated that if La Libertad Avanza contested the presidential election today, would garner 54% of votes.
For his part, he considered that Cristina Kirchner “needs to bring together and realign the entire troop” which he described as “a bag of cats.” “It is a desperate effort to try to unite and prevent them from entering a path that complicates them even more, “a desperate act to keep alive a political movement that has done a lot of damage to the country.”, development. “We would need them to become more rational and not want to continue maintaining an ape-based economy,” she said.
