by Christian K. Caruso, Breitbart:
Argentine libertarian economist Javier Milei formally debuted his political coalition’s campaign platform on Tuesday, a formal requirement for him to run in the October 2023 presidential elections.
Milei’s La Libertad Avanza (“Liberty Advances”) coalition issued its formal request to join the presidential race as the nation’s ruling leftist Frente de Todos (“Front for All”) coalition flounders in disarray, lacking a presidential candidate after incumbent President Alberto Fernández announced in April that he would not run for reelection. The current vice president, far-left former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, has also withdrawn her name from the race, again confirming on Tuesday that she would not run.
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Argentina is suffering a severe economic crisis, reaching an annual inflation rate of 109 percent in April that prompted the nation’s central bank to hike its base interest rate to 97 percent this week. The South American nation’s currency, the Argentine peso, also continues to lose value on a daily basis.
Liberty Advances will present Milei, a 52-year-old economist who built a right-wing coalition through online lectures and fiery cable news appearances, as its presidential candidate, alongside vice presidential running mate Victoria Villarruel. Both currently serve as federal deputies (lawmakers) in the Argentine Congress.
Their party platform includes 60 bullet-point proposals to change the Argentine government, which has been in leftist hands, with only brief respites of centrist rule, for decades.
Milei has presented himself as a fierce anti-communist, often denouncing the ideology as a “murderous system” that has taken the lives of 150 million human beings and describing its offshoot, socialism, as a “disease of the soul.”
In a 2019 interview that went viral on social media, Milei lashed out against politicians, calling them “parasites” and “sociopaths who wants us to believe that we are mentally disabled, disabled in every way, because we cannot live if it were not for them — in reality, they are the ones who cannot live without us.”
While identifying as a pro-capitalist Latin American libertarian, Milei has condemned “free market” policies that require doing business with communist states. Milei participated in protests outside the Cuban Embassy in Argentina in July 2021 as Cuban citizens fiercely protested against the communist Castro regime in their country. He has also condemned doing business with communist China, stating, “I don’t do business with communists” and insisting on economic ties only with “civilized” partners.
