Brazil’s Bolsonarists celebrate Milei’s victory in Argentina’s primaries amid regional shifts
The conservative faction in Brazil, associated with former president Jair Bolsonaro, expressed satisfaction with Javier Milei’s primary election win in Argentina, perceiving it as a setback for extreme leftist movements.
Eduardo Bolsonaro, a congressman and the former president’s son, shared on social media, “What seemed an aspiration a year ago, today becomes a reality.”
He believes Milei’s success signals a promising start toward the transformation Argentina needs.
His post was accompanied by a photograph with Milei and the right-leaning Chilean figure José Antonio Kast, taken at a conservative summit in São Paulo the previous year.
Eduardo Bolsonaro remarked that with neighboring countries distancing from socialism, Brazil finds a conducive environment to pursue its path to freedom.
He interprets Milei’s victory as a blow to the “extreme left and the São Paulo Forum” – an alliance of Latin American socialist parties co-founded by the current Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Ricardo Salles, another congressman who served as the Environment Minister during Jair Bolsonaro’s administration (2019-2022), joined others from the Brazilian right in the celebration, suggesting Argentina now sees “a beacon of hope.”
With 96.40% of votes counted, Milei’s party, “La Libertad Avanza”, secured 30.10% support.
This placed them ahead of the “Juntos por el Cambio” coalition (center-right) with 28.27% and the ruling leftwing “Unión por la Patria” with 27.21%.
In the PASO elections (open, simultaneous primary elections) held on this day, about 35.4 million Argentinians participated to formalize candidates for the presidential elections slated for October 22nd.
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