Posted on 11/23/2015 8:40:48 AM PST by SeekAndFind
BUENOS AIRES -- Conservative challenger Mauricio Macri turned Argentine politics on its head on Sunday, kicking the ruling Peronist movement out of power with a promise to liberalize the ailing economy and end a culture of divisive politics.
Macri, the son of an Italian-born construction magnate, won the election by tapping into frustration over anemic growth, high inflation, and corruption, and he will become only the third non-Peronist leader since the end of military rule in 1983.
The other two failed to finish their terms, however, a reminder of the difficulties that Peronist labor unions, state governors, and opponents in Congress could cause Macriif he is unable to get the economy growing quickly.
After an unpredictable campaign that pitted poorer Argentines grateful for generous welfare programs against others exasperated with state shackles on the economy, Macri will need to deliver on pro-business reforms without hurting the poor.
"We've been saying from Tierra del Fuego in the south to Jujuy in the north that we have to build an Argentina with zero poverty, and that's what we're going to do together," Macri told his jubilant supporters on Sunday night.
He defeated leftist ruling party candidate Daniel Scioli as voters punished outgoing President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner for her handling of the economy and her abrasive style of leadership.
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Sounds like the poor of Argentina will give him 15 or 20 minutes to turn the economy around after 30 years of leftist rule ...
Good luck President Macri
Sounds like a better goal than Obama's promise to help the middle class and then jacking up the debt so high that everyone becomes poor, except for his friends.
As an aside, Mother Teresa once said that poverty comes in many forms, including spiritual impoverishment. I think that is very, very true.
From a material world perspective, IMHO there is absolute poverty, and relative poverty. Differentiating between those is very important.
The happiest I’ve been in life have been times when I’ve felt I was doing something positive, and when I felt like I was living somewhat the way God would want me to live. Ironically, amongst the times in my life that I have been anxious and not happy are those times when I’ve bought something I didn’t need. ‘Shopping therapy’ doesn’t work for me..
Pleased he is not rallying the good people of Argentina to attack the Falkland Is.
That's the trap and lie of so-called welfare programs. A poor, uneducated farm worker in Santa Fe Province is told by Peronists electricity to his one-lightbulb shack is being given subsidized by their generosity, even while his wages are being eaten by spiraling inflation, or he is losing his job because of export taxes. So he goes and pulls the lever for more socialism.
The first of many Turns to the right in the world. I predict that many nations will go right in the next few years—many in Europe.
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