‘He is not a supporter of freedom, but of liberalism’: Vruyr Sargsyan on newly elected President of Argentina

Speaking with Alpha News, cultural figure Vruyr Sargsyan said that the newly elected president of Argentina is a rather good economist․

“The newly elected president of Argentina is an economist by profession. There is a lot of talk about the fact that he is a pretty good economist, since he worked in foreign organizations and led the economic advisory team at one of the largest factories in Argentina, owned by an Argentine-Armenian. According to their political views, they call themselves ‘libertalio’, which means not a supporter of freedom but of liberalism. These are different things,” our interlocutor said.

According to Vruyr Sargsyan, as elsewhere in the world, there are also many ignorant people in Argentina․

“In Argentina, economists are divided into different party groups. The dominant one is the Peronist Party. During his election campaign, Javier Milei contradicted himself many times. At first, he moved forward firmly, saying that we must abandon the peso, we must abolish the Central Bank, and we must not print any more pesos.

All this, in my opinion, was populist propaganda that attracted most people. As elsewhere in the world, here too, unfortunately, the vast majority of people are ignorant. Many people believe that they will receive a monthly salary of $300,000 if they dollarize the country,” Sargsyan said.