Argentine presidential candidates the ruling party of Sergio Massa and the far-right libertarian Javier Miley, This Sunday they measured their strength in debates are full of heavy crosses, They asked for a vote and set a second round of elections to take place on November 19th.

In his first performance Massa used his moments to interrogate Miley: “Javier, yes or no, I want to ask you: in (journalist Eduardo) Feynman’s program you said that you were going to abolish subsidies. Are you going to eliminate them, yes or no? Yes or no, are you going to privatize the Vaca Muerta mine (…)? Yes or no, are you going to dollarize the economy as you suggested in the letter you submitted to the election judge? Yes or no? Yes or no, are you going to privatize rivers and seas (…)? Yes or no, are you going to liquidate the Central Bank?”

Faced with this pile of questions, Miley became upset and told his opponent that he was not going to “force” him to answer “yes or no” and, having solved some of the questions, He summarized that he was going to “put an end to the Central Bank” and the “cancer of inflation.”

Mili assured that Foreign trade will be controlled by the private sector given that the state “does not have to intervene” in such problems, while Massa predicted the destruction of “thousands of families” as a result of such policies.

The Minister of Economy several times called Miley a “liar”, to which he replied: “If a liar says that someone is a liar, then the accused is the one who tells the truth. Because if you were Pinocchio, you would have already damaged my eye.”

Sergio Massa, presidential candidate of the Homeland Union. He promised “big changes” in the country if he achieves victory in next Sunday’s presidential elections, to which La Libertad Avanza’s Miley responded that it It is “impossible” to achieve such changes under the mandate of “the same people.”

“I have come to propose a great change for Argentina, which lies in the creation of a great agreement with public policy, through dialogue and consensus. but above all with respect for those who think differently.”– said Massa.

For his part, Miley rejected the possibility of implementing the proposal of the minister, who classified as a “caste”.

In the field of international relations, Miley assured that will go to “all diplomatic bodies so that the Malvinas Islands become Argentine again” and that it would promote rapprochement with “the United States, Israel and the free world” as well as changes to national security law.

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His defense of the Malvinas Islands came after the official candidate remember that he once expressed his “admiration” for former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcherwhich Massa considers “the enemy of Argentina yesterday, today and always” for its role in the war in the Malvinas Islands, occupied by British troops.

He confirmed that he “does not want to develop relations with those countries that do not respect democracy, individual freedom and peace,” meaning possible breakdown of relations with China and Brazil, the country’s two largest trading partners.

“The collapse of MERCOSUR and relations with Brazil and China means two million job losses and $28 billion in damage.”. “The President cannot be controlled by whim or ideology,” Massa replied.

The official candidate proposed as a goal the creation two million official jobs and increasing exports, especially developing relationships with countries “that open arms and markets to Argentine labor,” as well as creating an “Argentine FBI” in Rosario, a city severely affected by drug-trafficking violence.

A fierce critic of Kirchnerism – the wing of Peronism associated with the late former President Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007) and current Vice President and former President Cristina Fernández (2007-2015) – Miley reproached Massa for “returning to K” who created the Renovationist Front as a dissident movement after being Fernandez’s chief of staff (2008–2009), and is now a member of the Union of the Homeland.

In this regard, the official candidate He criticized support for former President Mauricio Macri. leader of the organization “Together for Change” (center-right), whose candidate, Patricia Bullrichwas third in the October vote.



“It seems to me that you haven’t learned anything, because In the end, you asked Macri to help you. And this is not Macri or Christina, I repeat again: you or me? Who will govern Argentina? “Who’s ready?” – said the Minister of Economy.

Macri and Fernandez have been two of the greatest champions of Argentina’s political life in recent decades, and although both declined to run for office, They continue to be leaders in their strengths.

After two hours of discussing their ideas on the economy, Argentina’s relationship with the world, education and health, production and labor, security, human rights and democratic coexistence, Massa and Miley asked Argentines to vote and They were due to participate in the second round of elections next Sunday.

(according to information from EFE, Europe Press And Aristegui News)