He is the favorite of the right wing and the pet of the next American administration. He was the first foreign guest to visit after Donald Trump won the election, and Elon Musk holds him up as a role model. Javier Maile has been the head of Argentina for a year. At this time, he presented his radical economic program. He reduced government spending, public investment and subsidies to public institutions. Many Argentines lost their jobs, but inflation, which was 25% a year ago, dropped to 3% month-on-month.
Hugs in the rain. Georgia Meloni welcomed the Argentine president in Rome with open arms. She had a special gift for him. Because of his Italian roots, Javier Miley received Italian citizenship, but he came to Rome for something else: to speak at a convention of the Italian Brotherhood.
– Major changes are ahead. The system of privileged groups is collapsing. The ideologies of the left face the opposition of the society, which is looking for new representatives, new leaders. We have to take this responsibility and fight, said the president of Argentina at the congress.
The president of Argentina is a champion of the right wing
Javier Maille has become a star of the right wing around the world. The politician, who called himself the Argentine Trump, is now the inspiration for the president-elect of the United States and his associates. Miley was the first foreign leader to visit Trump since Nov. 6 at Mar-a-Lago, and Trump's daughter-in-law praised Argentina's policies at a congress of right-wing parties in Buenos Aires.
– In America, we now have Elon Musk, who wants to head the Department of State Efficiency. He is doing in the United States what President Miley did in Argentina. We're going to say 'adios' to every useless agency, every corrupt bureaucrat, and Donald Trump is going to say, 'you're fired,'” said Lara Trump, Donald Trump's daughter-in-law and former chairwoman of the Republican National Committee.
READ ALSO: Italian citizenship for the president of Argentina. In Rome, Javier Miley's outrage is often cited by right-wing politicians as an example of good change. He has been president of Argentina for a year now and it seems that he is now winning the fight against inflation and the country's debt. While the annual inflation rate is still an astronomical 166 percent, the monthly inflation rate has dropped from over 25 percent to just under three percent. On December 11, Miley announced her next success.
– The deficit was the source of all our problems. Without it, there is no credit, no money circulation and no inflation – noted Javier Mailey. – Today, for the first time in 123 years, we eliminated the deficit and registered a budget surplus, – he added.
The actions of the president are positively evaluated by the International Monetary Fund and a large part of the citizens of Argentina. A libertarian who calls himself a market anarchist enjoys the support of more than 50 percent of the population. After winning the election, Miley announced that his reforms would require major changes and that their effects would be felt only after a few years.
Almost 53 percent of Argentines are now above the poverty line
– I don't know about inflation, but I know that when I get a salary, it disappears after two days. Until the twentieth is enough, now the month ends on the twelfth, says teacher Aida Segot.
– We understand the rules of this game and know what awaits us. Half a year ago we didn't know where we were going, now we know and we have to adapt to it, says salesman Aram Boyasiyan.
Although the president was able to reverse a very negative trend, it cannot be called an economic miracle. He saved three billion dollars by selling half of the state's cars and two airplanes, but he fired half of the drivers. Universities and doctors, among other things, complain about the very low funding.
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– They took free medicines from pensioners. They have fired more than 45,000 public sector workers and continue to make layoffs that hurt the lowest class, notes Claudio Arevalo, secretary of the national trade union.
– In October and November, I received medicines that are valid until November. Claudio Mariani, an AIDS patient, says that I have been taking expired drugs for three months.
In Argentina, which has a population of more than 46 million, about 53 percent of citizens live above the poverty line. This is the highest percentage in two decades.
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