Argentina is heading to the second round of the presidential elections. To warm up the process, the last debate between the candidates was held on Sunday, Javier Milei and Sergio Massaa quote loaded with accusations.
The libertarian, for many the great surprise of the primaries, and the ruling party, winner of the first round, starred in numerous intersections in which, In addition to presenting their proposals as possible leaders, they blamed the other for not being up to the position..
«Javier, yes or no, I want to ask you: You said on (journalist Eduardo) Feinmann’s program that you are going to eliminate subsidies. Are you going to eliminate them yes or no? By yes or no, are you going to privatize (the) Vaca Muerta deposit (…)? Yes or no, are you going to dollarize the economy as you proposed in the letter you presented to the electoral justice? yes or no? Yes or no, are you going to privatize rivers and seas (…)? Yes or no, are you going to eliminate the Central Bank?Massa said directly to Milei at the beginning of the debate.
However, the libertarian pointed out that, instead of being closed to answering affirmatively or negatively, he summarized that he was going to “end the Central Bank” and the “cancer of inflation.”
At the international level, The debate between Milei and Massa showed the old Argentine wounds, with the libertarian detailing that he will go to “all diplomatic instances so that the Malvinas become Argentine again.” Likewise, he stressed that he would reach out to “the United States, Israel and the free world.”
In front of him, Massa pointed out that he would increase exports and promote relations with countries “that open arms and markets to Argentine work.”
Regarding support from other parties, Massa criticized Milei for seeking the votes of Together for Changethe party that led Mauricio Macri to the presidency in 2015: «It seems to me that you didn’t learn anything because you ended up going to ask Macri to please help you. And this is not from Macri or Cristina, I repeat again: you or me? Who is going to govern Argentina? “Who is ready?”.
After the debate between Milei and Massa, It will be on Sunday, November 19, when the stage closes with the second round of the presidential elections.