Javier Milei: the 15 most shocking phrases of the new president of Argentina

Javier Milei was sworn in this Sunday, December 10, as president of Argentina and he broke with the tradition of giving the inauguration speech before the Legislative Assembly, so he decided to do it outside the building in front of his supporters.

The new head of state described his message as “the inheritance” he received regarding the current economic situation from his predecessor Alberto Fernández (2019-2023).

In that line, Milei started his speech: “Today a new era begins in Argentina. “We end a long and sad history of decadence and decline, and begin the path of rebuilding our country.”

Below are the most important phrases from his message.

The most impressive phrases from Javier Milei’s speech

• “No government has received a worse inheritance than what we are receiving. Kirchnerism, which in its beginnings boasted of having twin surpluses, today leaves us with twin deficits of 17% of GDP.”
• “That is the legacy they leave us, an inflation of 15,000% annually, which we are going to fight tooth and nail to eradicate.”
• “The outgoing government left us with hyperinflation“, and it is our highest priority to make all possible efforts to avoid such a catastrophe, which would lead to poverty above 90% and indigence above 50%.”

• “About 100 years of failures are not undone in one day, but one day it begins. And today is that day.”
• “Today begins an era of peace and prosperity, an era of freedom and progress. A new era begins in Argentina; Today a long era of decline ends and we begin the reconstruction of the country.”
• “There’s no money. The conclusion is that there is no alternative to adjustment, there is no alternative to shock. Naturally, this will have a negative impact on the level of activity, employment, real wages, and the number of poor and indigent people.”

• “The sensitive progressive proposal would lead us to a hyper in the manner of Venezuela of Maduro and Chávez.”
• “The solution involves a fiscal adjustment in the public fiscal sector. “That will fall on the State and not on the private sector.”
• “In terms of security, Argentina has become a bloodbath. Criminals walk free, while good Argentines are locked up behind bars. Today the anomie is such that only 3% of crimes are convicted. The continuation of criminals is over”.

• “The beginning will be hard. We know that in the short term the situation will worsen, but then we will see the fruits of our efforts.”
• “There will be stagflation, it is true, but it is not something very different from what has happened in the last two years.”
• “At some point, politicians decided to abandon the model that had made us rich and embraced the impoverishing ideas of collectivism. They have insisted for more than a hundred years in defending a model that only produces poverty. Gentlemen: that model has failed.”
• “Today we begin to retrace the path of decadence and begin to travel the path of prosperity. “We have everything to be the country we always dreamed of.”
• “To all those leaders who want to join the new Argentina, we welcome you with open arms. It doesn’t matter where they come from, what they’ve done before, the only thing that matters is where they want to go.”
• “May God bless the Argentines and may the forces of heaven accompany us in this challenge. It will be difficult, but we will do it. Long live damn freedom, stand up, we’re going to get out.”

Guests

At Milei’s inauguration were: King Felipe VI of Spain, the presidents of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky; Chile, Gabriel Boric; Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, and Paraguay, Santiago Peña, as well as the Prime Minister of Hungary, Víktor Orbán, among others.

With the Ukrainian leader, Javier Milei had a few minutes of conversation before joining in a hug of gratitude for having traveled to Argentina in the middle of the war that his country is suffering.