However, the people have expressed their will at the ballot box, and the democratic process must be respected. Secondly, Milei’s victory is a warning to Argentina’s entire political system, because it shows that an outsider with extreme proposals was better able to channel the popular anger and frustration than career politicians. As in 2001, the entire political system has failed the Argentine people. Winning the run-off is not a carte blanche to run roughshod over Argentina’s democratic consensus. As we said in our collective editorial, a Milei government must provide answers to the population’s demands without breaking the democratic consensus that we have spent 40 years building.
