The President Javier Milei He chose a platform of friends to deliver a strong message of order within the Freedom Advancesin increasing tension during the last few weeks. “We cannot afford to be scattered and to fight,” he said during his speech at the third edition of the Madrid Foruman event that began this Thursday at the Libertad Palace (formerly CCK).
The libertarian president delved into the internal conflict within the official space after a week of clashes: the Senate bloc expelled the legislator Francisco Paoltroni, after repeatedly pointing out differences with Milei’s own line of discourse, and Lourdes Arrieta announced his departure from the House of Representatives and the formation of a single block. Added to this is the fact that, in the last few hours, the provisional president of the Upper House Bartholomew Abdala He acknowledged that he has more than 15 advisors and most of them work in San Luis because his desire is to be governor of that province.
In this context, Milei waited until the end of his speech to warn his own people: “I want to take this opportunity to speak to those who make up La Libertad Avanza, our party, and to all those who support the ideas of freedom, from important leaders with state responsibility to the lowest of militants“The State party, which is another way of saying the political caste, is organized to ruin the lives of good people, of the working class. The only way to fight it is with organization and discipline on our side.”
“Even our own people can be working against the ideas of freedom” The president said bluntly. While he was giving this warning, I listened to him attentively Lilia Lemoine in the Ballena Azul auditorium, in open conflict -among others- with his counterpart in the Chamber of Deputies, Marcela Pagano. Also present on behalf of the Government were the Minister of Defense, Luis Petri; the presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni; the head of the Ministry of Health, Mario Russo, and the Secretary of Education, Carlos Torrendell.
In addition to the -few- national officials, the audience of more than 500 people was completed by leaders of the international far right and sympathizers, who displayed flags of Venezuela, Brazil and Cuba. However, The venue’s 1,950-seat capacity was far from full.
The meeting, which is taking place at the Palacio Libertad (formerly CCK), will continue on Friday. For this Thursday, the event programme has 23 speakers scheduled throughout the day, including officials, lawyers, writers and professors, among others. None of them are women.
Milei’s warning to the members of LLA
The Head of State referred to the differences within his space, He stressed the importance of organization and issued a strong warning for those who do not follow the official line.
“We cannot afford to be scattered and to fight.. Only by being together can we be strong, only by being loyal from militant to militant and helping each other can we defend the Argentines from the clutches of permanent power. We work in the service of a noble, true and common cause, which is so much bigger than each one of us. A cause for which it is worth giving one’s life,” he said.
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And he concluded: “Only by abandoning our personal aspirations can we rise to the challenge that this cause demands of us. There is no room for personal ambitions. Only in this way can we be faithful servants of the millions of Argentines who trusted us. The millions who had the courage to trust that a better life is possible. We cannot fail them, Anyone who understands the enormous responsibility of belonging to this space has no place in La Libertad Avanza“.
Sources with an office in Balcarce 50 consider that the President’s message “is aimed primarily at Congress.” “Just as Milei said, it is directed at everyone, including the militants,” the same sources add. The idea is clear: The party must be in order for 2025, the election year. The time for purges, in any case, is now.
The cultural battle, the axis of the Madrid Forum
Javier Milei was one of the first signatories of the Madrid Charter, a founding gesture of the Forum that is celebrating its third edition this week. The summit is promoted by the ““think tank” of the Spanish party VOX, chaired by Santiago Abascal, who maintains a close bond with the Argentine president. Both met face to face in May during the convention “Europe Live 24” which took place in the Iberian Peninsula.
During the event that began this Thursday, The Sao Paulo Forum and the Puebla Group were identified as “enemies”Along these lines, the elections in Venezuela and the attacks on the 2030 Agenda dominated the agenda. Abascal also took advantage of his speech to attack the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, whom he called a “thief of prosperity.”
“The bad guys are united and the good guys were disunited. The Madrid Forum means that the good guys are starting to be organized and united,” he stressed.
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Along the same lines, Javier Milei based his speech on the cultural battle against the “party of the State”which he identified as the caste. “We must never abandon the battle, we must always fight it with the same fire that they throw, without asking for forgiveness or permission,” he said. “The cultural battle is not something that one takes or leaves, but rather it is a commitment,” he stressed.
As in every public appearance, the President took the opportunity to ratify his economic program, and confirmed that –As anticipated by Ambito– intends to present the 2025 Budget in Congress. “From here you can see their fangs (…) as they are the party of the State, they need to keep the job, they don’t care that the elephantine State is paid for with the sweat of the people because there is nothing that bothers them more in life than a worker who doesn’t need them and that is why the game of politics is to boycott our political program,” he said.
Emboldened by the friendly applause, which abounded when he referred to the previous administration’s management in matters of pandemic, or when he pointed against the pressMilei even went so far as to say that she is running “the best government in Argentine history”“Come, we are ready to die with our boots on,” he said.
After his speech, the President went to Casa Rosada, where he came out to greet passersby from the Casa Rosada Balcony.
Source: Ambito
