The Peronist presidential candidate of Argentina, Sergio Massa, rejected on Thursday 16, without evidence, the accusations of alleged electoral fraud made by the party of his opponent, the ultraright Javier Milei.
The second round of voting will take place next Sunday, the 19th.
After an event with businessmen, Massa recalled that other representatives of the international far right, such as Jair Bolsonaro (PL) in Brazil and Donald Trump in the USA, also claimed irregularities in the elections, although they never demonstrated them.
“I have great confidence in the work that every election judge and the National Electoral Chamber have been doing for many years,” said the Peronist in Buenos Aires. He added that “this idea of Trump and Bolsonaro not to accept results is very bad.” The statements were recorded by the newspaper La Nación.
With the fraud allegations, Milei is actually following the playbook of the rightwing extremists who recently came to power.
For example, in July 2022, Bolsonaro decided to gather foreign ambassadors at the Palácio do Planalto to repeat empty “denunciations” about electronic voting machines and the electoral court. Less than a year later, the Supreme Electoral Court found abuse of power and media abuse and banned the former captain for eight years.
At the meeting in which the TSE approved the decision, Minister Alexandre de Moraes explained that “the president who attacks the fairness of the electoral system that elected him 40 years ago is not exercising freedom of expression,” but “prohibited behavior and committed abuse.” Perfomance”.