JAVIER MILEI EN LA CASA ROSADA: LAS CAUSAS DE SU FULGURANTE ASCENSO.

Javier Milei won the Argentine presidential elections on 19 November 2023 to the astonishment of his detractors in Argentina and a large part of international public opinion. His incendiary discourse against la casta and his groundbreaking promises catapulted him to stardom on television, from where he began to articulate an electoral platform around a political identity with no roots in Argentina: libertarianism. However, in order to win the final victory, Milei had to articulate this new identity with the sedimentation of the previous period, presided over by the dichotomy generated around la grieta. From the perspective of Political Theory, we will question the specificity of this articulation and its particular use of antagonisms in order to understand the reasons for its success. We will explore the challenges and risks posed by Milei’s mandate in terms of civil rights and liberties, democratic memory policies and a whole series of elements that seemed to form part of an unquestionable political and social consensus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]