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Interview with Tobias Belgrano, Political Consultant about national legislative elections in Argentina. teleSUR

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00:00To go further into this topic and better understand what is happening in Argentina,

00:04what is at stake at this midterm elections, we receive now Tobias Belgrano, political consultant.

00:10Thank you, Tobias, for joining us here in From the South.

00:14Hi, thank you for inviting me.

00:16So, Tobias, the polling stations have closed.

00:19So, what are your first impressions on this election day?

00:23How did it go?

00:25So, this election was quite particular in many aspects.

00:29Initially, there was a change in the way of voting.

00:32We traditionally voted with the party ballot.

00:38Now, it has changed to a unique ballot.

00:40So, every voter has to choose a candidate by selecting it with a cross with a pen.

00:46And this is quite new for Argentinian traditional electoral system, which has been switched.

00:52This change has made the initial previous results.

00:59I mean, what we call the previous results that the media informed before, the official results,

01:08been a little bit dizzy.

01:09Yeah, we were not quite clear of the tendency.

01:12However, there is a general sensation in all the media and all the previous results that we're receiving

01:18that the libertarians have improved their electoral expectations in many provinces,

01:27such as Santa Fe or Córdoba, where there were a third party competing of the local governors,

01:36which was called United Provinces, that included Córdoba and Santa Fe governors.

01:41And they seem to be losing the election against the libertarians.

01:48So, that's what the general sensation is, that the election was polarized and nationalized

01:54instead of being more local, as it was in 2023, for example.

01:58So, it seems that these, plus the low levels of participation, have benefited the libertarians

02:06in this sense.

02:07So, it seems that we are having a more polarized election, where there's a slight advantage for

02:15the libertarians.

02:16We have, which in their, right now, in their party bunker, they are being, showing themselves

02:21as very optimist.

02:22The president's sister, Karina Milei, has shown herself, and even she has spoken, which is

02:29something that she traditionally never does.

02:32So, there is a general sensation that the libertarians might be seeing a slight victory

02:37in the national level, which was their initial intention, especially to show to the investors

02:42and to the IMF, and especially to President Trump.

02:46Tobias, you were just talking about the narrative regarding these results, the importance for the

02:51government to show a good result in front of investors, also in front of the U.S., that

02:58had been a major partner with a very controversial pact and direct interference in the past week.

03:04The past weeks have been of a lot of instability, political and economical.

03:10How do you think this week will open as of tomorrow?

03:14So, there are some tendencies, as I was mentioning, as we have some tendencies in the political

03:21area.

03:21There are also some signals in the economic arena, the USDT or USDC, which is the cryptocurrency

03:28that is paired with the U.S. dollar and its exchange in Argentinian pesos, has been reduced.

03:36So, that means that it seems the investors are seeing some tendencies in favor of the libertarians

03:44or some of the market sees the possibility of a libertarian triumph.

03:48So, it seems to be in the economic arena that we might have a little monetary summer in Argentina,

04:00our economic summer in Argentina, which is how we call a good moment in the economy, at least

04:07from Monday onwards, at least in the financial arena.

04:10We still have to see what happens with the day-to-day microeconomy for people, which is

04:17the main problem and what the opposition is claiming for against the libertarian administration.

04:22Now, Tobias, let's recall also to our audience, we've been talking about this election being

04:28a very hard election to translate in terms of the results to explain outside of Argentina

04:35what it means to be the general winner or who wins in which district.

04:40We are seeing what we're looking at is the future composition of the Congress and whatever

04:46the outcome, the government will have to face just a series of negotiations in order to see

04:53how the situation stabilizes.

04:56So, what is the climate on the streets?

04:59We've also been seeing a lot of demonstrations in the past month, also a lot of legislative defeats

05:09for the president as well.

05:11How do you think that the coming months are going to be in that scenario?

05:16So, first of all, clarifying a little bit about the general election, as you were asking.

05:25Argentinian Congress, it's made of small elections on each province.

05:29Each province makes their elections for deputies and senators.

05:33The general sensation is that in Buenos Aires province, which was the big hit in September

05:407 for the peronism, and it was the surprise against the Javier Milay program.

05:46Economic program, and we watched what it caused the general economic instability since September

05:52until recently this week.

05:55It seems that the peronism has become a very urban phenomenon, especially in the big cities,

06:05especially in Buenos Aires City and in the Buenos Aires province.

06:09There is a general view that in the Buenos Aires City election for peronism was quite successful,

06:16more than expected.

06:17I mean, the libertarians in their main district, which is when Buenos Aires City were not able

06:24to be so successful as they were in the past.

06:27So, there is the rumor, at least from what they are saying, of the previous results.

06:31Results will be published at 9 o'clock.

06:35The rumor is that the peronism made a great election in Buenos Aires City.

06:40So, we are seeing a peronism that is becoming a more urban phenomenon rather than a provincial

06:48phenomenon, which is what's more traditional, where more traditional peronism was.

06:53So, this is a new change in how peronism is perceived.

06:57Of course, peronism was always a Buenos Aires urban areas phenomenon, but it seems that that

07:03might be concentrating there.

07:04And there's a change, especially for the middle-class voters in the big cities such as Buenos Aires City.

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