Alberto Fernández traveled to La Pampa to meet Sergio Ziliotto, who has just been re-elected as governor in Sunday's elections. In this context, emboldened by the Peronist triumph in that province, the president took aim at Javier Milei, whom he called "energúmeno" and attacked those who "preach that we are dead."
Fernandez arrived in Santa Rosa a day after Ziliotto beat his Together for Change rival Martin Berhongaray by just five points. He had done the same a week ago, after the triumph of Ricardo Quintela in La Rioja.
With the excuse of the inauguration of the Integral Territorial Center for Gender and Diversity Policies of Santa Rosa, Fernández aimed his darts against Javier Milei and against Together for Change, although against these he was less incisive in his words.
"All the preaching is that we are dead, that we have no chance of winning," Fernandez launched in what seemed to be a criticism against his own and others after Peronism prevailed in several of the provinces that had elections during May.
And he continued with his criticism, now against the pre-candidate for president of La Libertad Avanza. "A character has appeared who says barrabasadas, who wants to privatize the streets of Buenos Aires, give freedom to sell the organs, who says that we must tear down the Central Bank, dollarize the economy," he described without naming him.
"They want us to believe that this is the new person that politics makes appear in Argentina," he launched and added, without concluding the sentence, that "every time their representatives in the provinces present themselves, they represent what they objectively are."
"However, the media empire does everything possible to show that energúmeno in a preponderant place in the Argentine Republic," the president said against Milei.
Fernández also dedicated words against Together for Change, although he gave him less criticism than the libertarian economist. "They want us to believe they have the solutions to the problems they created. Shocking, isn't it?" he said.
The background to criticism of Javier Milei
Fernández's words against Milei have a recent antecedent: the criticisms that Cristina Kirchner had made to the libertarian in her last public appearance, the act at the Teatro Argentino de la Plata.
At the end of April, the vice president sought to directly confront this Milei, given the surprises that the latest polls throw when measuring her presidential candidacy. This Monday Alberto called it "energúmeno"; Cristina had called him "mamarracho"
"Those mamarrachos who go around saying that the caste is afraid, what is it afraid of? If nothing ever happened to you, brother. What are you coming to fuck me about, where are we afraid of you, fuckers?", the former president had launched in a fiery monologue in which for the first time she tried to polarize with the economist for the debate around the dollarization proposed by the presidential candidate.
"Deaths, violence, repression, this is the history of convertibility in Argentina, which is the history of dollarization," he said.
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