{"id":1017618,"date":"2021-11-16T00:29:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T05:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1017618"},"modified":"2021-11-16T00:29:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T05:29:31","slug":"argentina-libertarians-fuel-fall-of-socialists-in-senate-for-first-time-in-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/argentina-libertarians-fuel-fall-of-socialists-in-senate-for-first-time-in-40-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina: Libertarians Fuel Fall of Socialists in Senate for First Time in 40 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fargentina-libertarians-fuel-fall-of-socialists-in-senate-for-first-time-in-40-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1017618&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Argentina\u2019s socialist Peronist coalition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/argentines-vote-midterm-trial-by-fire-president-fernandez-2021-11-14\/\">received<\/a> a pummeling at the polls on Sunday, losing the Senate for the first time since 1983 and suffering major defeats in Buenos Aires, the capital and largest city.<\/p>\n<p>Voters soundly rejected the coalition formally known as the Front for All (<em>Frente de Todos<\/em>) after a disastrous two years for President Alberto Fern\u00e1ndez defined by national outrage at Chinese coronavirus quarantine protocol, forced masking, and economic devastation. Fern\u00e1ndez\u2019s regime endured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2020\/10\/13\/argentina-thousands-take-streets-protest-socialist-government\/\">months<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/03\/03\/argentines-bang-pots-to-drown-out-socialist-president-amid-vaccine-scandal\/\">protest<\/a>&nbsp;in response to coronavirus lockdowns, increased taxes, and a scandal in which reports revealed that the socialists had hoarded and used coronavirus vaccines among themselves before sharing them with the public. Among other coronavirus-related scandals were a Peronist lawmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2020\/09\/25\/argentine-lawmaker-resigns-after-fondling-political-advisor-during-zoom-meeting\/\">fondling<\/a> a woman who was not his wife during a Congressional Zoom session; a Peronist senator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/01\/27\/argentine-senator-defends-quarantines-you-have-rights-but-not-pandemic\/\">declaring<\/a>, \u201cyou have rights, but not during a pandemic;\u201d and mob <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2020\/11\/27\/mob-storms-argentinas-presidential-palace-during-diego-maradona-funeral\/\">violence<\/a> during the funeral of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benditofutbol.com\/internacional\/argentina-recuerda-mano-dios-maradona.html\">cheating<\/a> Argentine soccer legend and fervent communist Diego Armando Maradona.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Complicating the situation for the socialists has been the rise of a pro-freedom movement led by libertarian economist Javier Milei, who began his career as a charismatic television personality and has since built a political coalition known as Liberty Advances (<em>La Libertad Avanza<\/em>). Local reports place most of Sunday\u2019s energy at the Liberty Advances headquarters, noting a high number of young supporters and an atmosphere described as resembling a rock concert.<\/p>\n<p>The Front for All is the latest iteration of \u201cPeronism,\u201d named after late dictator Juan Per\u00f3n. Given its founder\u2019s notorious refusal to align with any one ideology, \u201cPeronism\u201d has for much of its existence attracted both socialists and fascists and identified publicly only as vaguely \u201cpopulist.\u201d Now spearheaded by far-left socialists and redefined in the image of former presidents Nestor Kirchner and Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner, the Front for All is an openly socialist, elitist party. Fern\u00e1ndez de Kirchner currently serves as vice president despite a long record of corruption <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2019\/05\/16\/argentina-court-suspends-leftist-ex-presidents-corruption-case-putting-her-closer-running-again\/\">accusations<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2018\/03\/06\/former-argentine-president-cristina-kirchner-tried-amia-bombing-cover\/\">evidence<\/a> that she used the presidency to protect Iranian terrorists.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18752746\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Peronism.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18752746\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Peronism.jpg\" alt=\"People play drums with portraits of late former leader Juan Domingo Peron and his wife Eva Duarte, also konwn as &quot;Evita&quot;, during a march in Buenos Aires on October 18, 2021, during a rally to celebrate the Day of the Loyalty to Peronism. (Juan Mabromata\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">People play drums with portraits of late former leader Juan Domingo Peron and his wife Eva Duarte, also konwn as \u201cEvita\u201d, during a march in Buenos Aires on October 18, 2021, during a rally to celebrate the Day of the Loyalty to Peronism. (Juan Mabromata\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Front for All\u2019s losses most directly benefitted the establishment center-right coalition of former President Mauricio Macri, Together for a Change (<em>Juntos por el Cambio<\/em>). Together for a Change is now the largest bloc in the Senate and made significant gains in the lower house of Congress. Observers noted that this did not necessarily mean that the center-right establishment had returned to the public\u2019s good graces.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at yesterday, the opposition won. If you look at the process of the last two years, nobody won,\u201d columnist Carlos Pagni with&nbsp;<em>La Naci\u00f3n<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lanacion.com.ar\/opinion\/de-la-encerrona-del-kirchnerismo-a-una-oposicion-que-se-reconfigura-nid15112021\/\">remarked<\/a>. Pagni described the election as \u201ca challenge to the political class and, in some moments, to politics itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The local victories for Liberty Advances \u2013 which became the third most powerful party in the Buenos Aires region despite having no establishment support and being the brainchild of a television pundit \u2013 highlight this. That pundit, Milei, is believed to be headed to Congress, though not all votes have been counted at press time. Milei regularly describes career politicians as a \u201chigh caste\u201d that he wishes to destroy and expresses viscerally a disgust for socialism and the state in general.<\/p>\n<p>During remarks on Sunday night, Milei, the party leader, asserted that he would not allow his party to engage in any coalition with establishment parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are telling the tyrant Alberto Fern\u00e1ndez that we will not sit down and negotiate,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.com\/politica\/elecciones-2021-largas-colas-luna-park-agotado-euforia-bunker-javier-milei_0_zebvQJz6A.html\">said<\/a>, to chants of \u201cfreedom\u201d from the audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-15\">\u201cThey told us that we liberals [libertarians] were cute but we couldn\u2019t get any votes and that we were not going to defeat the left,\u201d Milei declared, according to Argentine newspaper&nbsp;<em>Clar\u00edn<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-15\">Milei also reportedly announced he would run for president in 2023.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.8219178082192\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddf7 | Javier Milei confirma que a partir de ma\u00f1ana empezar\u00e1 a recorrer el pa\u00eds para ser candidato a presidente en 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Milei2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Milei2023<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u5AKqQbiId\">pic.twitter.com\/u5AKqQbiId<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 La Derecha Diario (@laderechadiario) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laderechadiario\/status\/1460059567430242309?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.4897959183673\">\n<p lang=\"pt\" dir=\"ltr\">VAMOS MILEI <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RuzpmteMI0\">pic.twitter.com\/RuzpmteMI0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 La Libertad Avanza (@LLibertadAvanza) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LLibertadAvanza\/status\/1460019405300150279?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Clar\u00edn<\/em> described the headquarters of the Milei coalition as \u201ceuphoric\u201d and eccentric, populated by a variety of youth, pro-freedom voters clearly inspired by American conservatism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Some] wore the \u2018Make America Great Again\u2019 hat former President Donald Trump popularized and there were also some characters,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Clar\u00edn<\/em> detailed, \u201clike a young man in a headband, a tunic, and a giant treble clef that he played like an electric guitar.\u201d Others present included internet celebrities known as \u201cthe Human Barbie\u201d and the \u201cHuman Elf.\u201d Salesmen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ambito.com\/politica\/elecciones-2021\/javier-milei-hemos-logrado-cambiar-el-eje-del-debate-y-ganar-la-batalla-cultural-n5317207\">offered<\/a> revelers merchandise branded with Trump\u2019s image as well as those of Milei and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Some offered cards in the style of Catholic saint prayer cards emblazoned with Milei\u2019s image.<\/p>\n<p>Despite some of the bizarre displays at Milei\u2019s party, Argentine media appeared to make more fun of Fern\u00e1ndez\u2019s party than Milei\u2019s. The historic loss appeared to have no effect on the Front for All\u2019s approach to the night, resulting in Fern\u00e1ndez and several other key establishment figures offering \u201cvictory\u201d speeches. Fern\u00e1ndez reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infobae.com\/opinion\/2021\/11\/15\/el-extrano-festejo-de-una-derrota-aplastante\/\">asked<\/a> the audience to \u201ccelebrate this triumph appropriately,\u201d a quote the Argentine news outlet Infobae comically modified with a \u201c[sic].\u201d Infobae noted that the governor of Buenos Aires province, Kirchnerist mainstay Axel Kicillof, bizarrely celebrated that the turnout in the general election was slightly higher than in this year\u2019s primaries \u2013 which happens in nearly every election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who didn\u2019t have any information and saw what happened last night would conclude that this is a group of people who had succeeded at something,\u201d Infobae quipped. \u201cThe truth is the exact opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ruling party lost but appears intent in pretending that nothing happened,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Clarin&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.com\/opinion\/alguien-debe-avisarle-alberto-fernandez-perdio_0_nFCSjcOAt.html\">observed<\/a> in a column titled \u201cSomeone Should Tell Alberto Fern\u00e1ndez That He Lost.\u201d \u201cIt is understood: they expected an electoral shellacking and it was just an important, inevitable defeat \u2013 despite the immense, and obscene, use of public funding and the state apparatus for their own benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1637057945640000&amp;usg=AOvVaw06fyTpUfOqyZIJNJX-SNeb\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1637057945640000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1Tb5rmdjwRAyUdazFjn0TY\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina\u2019s socialist Peronist coalition received a pummeling at the polls on Sunday, losing the Senate for the first time since 1983 and suffering major defeats in Buenos Aires, the capital &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}