Argentina elects 'shock therapy' libertarian Javier Milei as president
Argentina elects 'shock therapy' libertarian Javier Milei as president
Milei is pledging economic shock therapy, including shutting the central bank, ditching the peso and slashing spending. His challenges will be enormous: Empty coffers, a $44 billion debt program with the IMF, 150% inflation and more.
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I predict that Argentinians are going to like this even less in the long run than the stuff the Peronists have gotten up to
I can get the annoyance with how the economy has been... but jeez, what is the real solution here? I can't see much of anything positive coming out of this.
Elect normal-ass people instead of batcrap loonies like milei or the peronists.
What options are in Argentina currently? I have almost zero knowledge of the political system there.
Juan Schiaretti was the most normal dude of the runner ups, but besides him being like 70, nobody knew who he even was in the Political Spectrum, just this elections have made him visible enough that he got a good amount of votes and good reputation
The others? Peronists (All the Blue colored Parties)
A Lizardman known as "Larreta" who's an Authoritarian and one of the most incompetent sons of bitches that has ever governed Buenos Aires and the other of his same Party "Patricia Bullrich" A LITERAL TERRORIST on the 70s and previously Security Minister, didnt do a great job, both of them in the Yellow Party
Lastly there was Milei... so yeah
I think the only silver lining will (hopefully) be a whiplash reaction once the authoritarian populists fuck things up enough.
It's been a slow one in the UK, at least the US had a four-year load of nonsense to deal with before finding reality again.
For real - our electoral systems are utterly fucked, but sometimes yours makes ours look like a damn tea party
I assume that, just like with trump, they won't admit that they were bamboozled and will just double down with the crazy.
Most likely. That seems to be the pattern.