Pese a que el mandatario asumió en primera línea la campaña electoral y vaticinó una victoria de su partido (“Buenos Aires se pintará de morado”, afirmaba Milei), las cifras han sido contundentes. Se estima que hubo una participación de casi el 61%.

Despite the president taking a front-line role in the election campaign and predicting victory for his party (“Buenos Aires will be painted purple,” Milei claimed), the figures speak for themselves. Voter turnout is estimated at almost 61%.

The repression took place during the usual Wednesday demonstration demanding better living conditions for Argentine seniors and the reversal of neoliberal measures.

The mobilization united groups of women, workers, people with disabilities, doctors, scientists, etc., who are being hit hard by the economic policy of Milei’s government.

More than a hundred people were arrested and dozens were injured in the police repression. Movements and press organizations have called for the resignation of the Secretary of Security, Patricia Bullrich.

The brutality of Milei’s far-right government has been put on display with the heavy handed repression doled out to elderly pensioners in the country who have been protesting for an increase in their pensions

Pensioners and other working class sections protested the privatization of pensions and proposed cuts in social security. The State Coordinator for the Defense of the Public Pension System (COESPE) also demanded an independent audit of the social security funds