(29 Sep 2024)
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Parque Lezama, Buenos Aires, Argentina – 28 September 2024
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1. Argentine president Javier Milei arriving to the rally walking and greeting across the middle of the crowd
2. Crowd gathering around Milei as he tries to walk to the stage
3. Milei being carried by his security team across a fence to enter the stage
4. Milei energetically greeting the crowd from the stage
5. Milei singing and shaking his arms
6. Wide of Milei, crowd and a banner on screen that reads (Spanish) "La Libertad Avanza", the name of his political party
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Javier Milei, Argentine president:
"In the first quarter, poverty grew to 55%. But I want to tell all these hypocritical and impoverishing sentimentalists something: poverty in the second quarter of the year was 51%. Therefore, poverty has begun to decline in Argentina."
8. Crowd clapping hands during speech
9. Crowd singing
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Javier Milei, Argentine president:
"I also want you to know that when their government left, the minimum pension was $80 and today that pension is $240. It was tripled in hard currency, not in ‘toy’ pesos issued by a government of thieves."
11. Pan of crowd to stage where Milei was giving his speech
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Javier Milei, Argentine president:
"If we want to fight back, we need to organize ourselves. And that’s why I have entrusted my sister, the true leader, to raise and carry the torch of freedom, creating ‘La Libertad Avanza’ across the country."
13. Milei ending his speech, hugging his sister Karina Milei, as crowd cheers
14. Wide of crowd greeting Milei
STORYLINE:
Argentine President Javier Milei launched his new national political party, La Libertad Avanza, at a massive public rally on Saturday, as he reflected on the unlikely journey that brought him to power.
He hopes to gain greater representation in Congress, where he currently holds a minority position.
At an event organized in Parque Lezama, a location where he had held several rallies during his political beginnings, a large gathering took place, starting with rock music.
Milei arrived on stage like a true musical star, making his way through the crowd that reached out to touch him.
He recounted his improbable political history leading to the presidency, framing it as a struggle between David and Goliath, strongly criticized the press, and boasted about making history in the country’s economy, even as 52.9% of Argentinians live in poverty—the highest rate recorded since 2003.
The figure revealed on Thursday by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec) showed a deterioration of social indicators by 11.2% points compared to the second half of 2023, when 41.7% of the population was poor.
Meanwhile, extreme poverty affects 18.1% of citizens, up from 11.9% in the last semester.
Additionally, during the first half of this year, 66.1% of children under 14 lived in poor households.
Milei stated that poverty is decreasing in the country, despite the concerning recent data published on Thursday.
He claimed that this situation was created by previous governments.
He also added that change will not happen overnight, but that the issue is being actively addressed.
With bureaucratic processes allowing La Libertad Avanza to expand into other provinces and achieve better national presence, Milei hopes they can secure greater representation in Congress.
AP video by Cristian Kovadloff
AP production by Natacha Pisarenko
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