Officials from the Ministry of Defense and the Casa Rosada are working at full speed on the details of the military parade that will take place on July 9 in downtown Buenos Aires, which will have the participation of thousands of soldiers, officers and non-commissioned officers of the Army, the Argentine Navy and the Air Force, as well as tanks, horses and planes that will fly through the sky of the city of Buenos Aires.
It will be after the Tedeum that traditionally takes place in the Metropolitan Cathedral and which brings together political authorities, headed by President Javier Milei and his Cabinet, social, religious, judicial, diplomatic and business leaders. And it will be done before the May Pact that could be signed at night in the province of Tucumán, together with governors, former presidents and other personalities who were summoned by the president.
Those in charge of the preparations revealed few details, because the fine print is being worked on, but they confirmed that the Malvinas War Veterans will have a special place, possibly leading the formation that marches through the streets of the city of Buenos Aires. Although it was initially revealed that the main route would be along Avenida Del Libertador, as occurred in Mauricio Macri’s government, the route that the military will travel has not yet been finalized. Yes, it is confirmed that it will start at 11 in the morning.
In principle, the option that is being analyzed is to take Avenida Del Libertador and then continue along Avenida Figueroa Alcorta, passing in front of the Faculty of Law, where the famous stairs are, where the stage that Milei and I would use could be set up. the special guests. These are speculations, because only next week will the regiments, brigades and units of the Army, Navy and Air Force that will participate be resolved.
Also, the budget that will demand such a massive deployment of the military in times when the national government states that “there is no money.” In any case, Milei, as commander in chief of the Armed Forces, recognizes a key value in the evocation of national symbols for the recovery of Argentina.
The truth is that more than 4,000 men and women from the three Arms, security forces, music bands, horses, heavy transport units, tanks, planes are expected to participate, and it is not ruled out that they will approach the area of the Puerto Nuevo de Buenos Aires the Frigate Libertad and other warships of the Navy. Although it was expected that an F16 similar to those purchased by the Argentine government from Denmark with the endorsement of the United States would participate in the events of July 9, until now there is no official information or reports on the subject.
Although Milei’s government has not yet defined the format – and as Infobae anticipated, it has one eye on the Copa América fixture, in case Argentina plays a semifinal that day – the truth is that the parade would be the prelude to the event in which has all eyes on it: the May Pact. It is the agreement that could not be signed on May 25 and that the President decided to move it to another national date, with the aim of establishing a founding milestone for the new stage of Argentina.
This is what he stated in his speech on June 20: “I want to take advantage of this day with the Argentine Flag flying in the sky, with the sanction of the Bases Law and the fiscal package already advanced, to convene all the political authorities, the governors, the leaders of the main political parties, the former presidents of the Nation, members of the Supreme Court of Justice, businessmen, workers, and of course to all Argentine citizens to meet on the night of July 9 in Tucumán to finally sign the May Pact and we finally begin to turn the page of our history.”
The previous parade must be in line with this intention that Javier Milei raised on Flag Day. The Minister of Defense, Luis Petri, the Chief of Staff, Guillermo Francos, the Secretary General of the Presidency, Karina Milei, and the advisor Santiago Caputo, among others, know this.
