The president of Argentina, Javier Mileiappeared for the first time on the main balcony of the Casa Rosada, the government headquarters of the South American country, and greeted those present in the Plaza de Mayo singing and decreeing “the end of the populist night.”
Milei looked out onto the historic balcony of the Pink House after greeting the international leaders in a palace hall and sitting for the first time in the president’s office.
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From there, The new ruler began by singing “Panic Show”, the great success of the Argentine hard rock group La Renga. that has accompanied him since the beginning of his career for the Presidency of the Republic and in which the “lions” are mentioned, the animals associated with the libertarian.
“Today is the rebirth of a Argentina prosperous and liberal,” he proclaimed Mileiwearing the albiceleste presidential sash and wielding the walking stick used by Argentine heads of state on the day of their investiture.
“I am going to begin the reconstruction of Argentina after more than a hundred years of decline,” said the president, who did not hide the difficulties that the country will face in the first months of his mandate.
Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, speaks to the crowd from a balcony of the Casa Rosada on the day of his inauguration in Buenos Aires on December 10, 2023. (Photo by Pablo PORCÍUNCULA/AFP).
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But despite the “period of hardness” that they will face, the Argentines “They are going to get ahead”he proclaimed.
He president He thanked those present for “the affection shown” by “a liberal libertarian president,” the first in history in the entire world, according to Milei.
Subsequently, The president described his political doctrine, summarized in a phrase by the controversial Argentine intellectual Alberto Benegas Lynch, whom he considers the “hero” of libertarians.
“Liberalism is the unrestricted respect for the life project of others, based on the principle of non-aggression, in defense of the right to life, liberty and property, whose fundamental institutions are private property, markets free of intervention state, free competition, division of labor and social cooperation,” he declared before a crowd carrying Argentine flags and libertarian symbols.
“Let’s embrace these ideas and we will become power again. “May God bless us and may the Forces of Heaven guide us in creating the best government in history!” concluded the president.
Behind him, Milei has had at all times his sister and main advisor, Karina Milei, and his partner, Fátima Flórez, with whom he does not live.
