President of Argentina Javier Miley speaks to lawmakers during the opening session of the 2024 Argentine Congress on March 01, 2024 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Argentine President Javier Miley told the World Economic Forum on Thursday that the “global hegemony” of left-wing politics and ideology is “beginning to collapse.”
“What once seemed like the global dominance of the woke left over politics, educational institutions, the media, supranational organizations or even in forums like Davos, is beginning to crumble,” said Miley, the right-wing leader who took office in 2014. 2023, said business leaders and politicians in Davos, Switzerland.
The divisive term “woke” usually refers to support for social justice issues and political activism.
The Argentine politician, who portrays himself in the same vein as US President Donald Trump, said he was forming alliances with other like-minded figures and leaders.
“Over the course of this year, I have found allies in this fight for the cause of freedom in every corner of the world, from the amazing (tech billionaire) Elon Musk to that fierce Italian lady (Prime Minister) Giorgia Meloni, from (President Nayib Bukele added: In El Salvador and Viktor Orban in Hungary,” he also listed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump among his allies.
“Slowly, an international alliance is forming between all those countries that want to be free and believe in the ideas of freedom,” he said.
Miley's comments exemplify the deep divide between world leaders on the left and right of the political spectrum, with both camps making little effort to overcome or understand each other's ideological differences and positions in recent years.
After his inauguration on Monday, President Trump He signed a large number of executive orders that reversed the policies put in place by his predecessor, Joe Biden, Such as commitments to combat climate change. Biden, a Democrat, had done the same thing with Trump's policies when he entered the White House in 2021, after a Republican's first presidency.
Miley said he came to Davos to warn that “the battle is not over yet.”
“Despite the revival of hope, it is our duty and moral responsibility to dismantle the ideological edifice of sick vigilantism,” he said.
The Argentine president caused a stir at the World Economic Forum last year when he called on world leaders to reject socialism and embrace “free enterprise capitalism” instead to end global poverty.
In his keynote speech last year, Miley warned that “the Western world is in danger.” “Those who are supposed to defend the values of the West are co-opted by a worldview that inevitably leads to socialism, and thus to poverty,” he said.
Liberal Miley is credited with renewing market confidence in Argentina's oppressed economy, implementing cuts in public sector spending and energy subsidies, among his policies. Inflation also fell from one of the world's highest annual inflation rates of 289.4% in April to 117.8% in the year to December 2024. According to data from the country's central bank.
Critics of Miley's austerity program are trying to cut government spending However, they say poverty rose during his term.
