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Alberto Fernández gave his last speech as president this Friday. He did it through a national network in which he evaluated his management. It was, in short, his last message to the population before handing over control in two days to Javier Milei, who will succeed him in office after winning the second round against Sergio Massa. The message was recorded the same morning of the holiday Friday, in the Patio de Las Palmeras of the Casa Rosada. Below is Alberto Fernández's full speech: Exactly 40 years ago we were going through the last hours of the fiercest military dictatorship in our history.
We did it with hope for the future and with the Mexico Mobile Number List secret terror that the cycle of authoritarianism and terror that marked much of our 20th century could be repeated. We did it. We are able. The dictatorship, with its personal, political and economic consequences, took years to end. And democracy went through many ups and downs until it was consolidated. And here we are, forty years later, on the eve of a new presidential transfer. The generation that was waiting for that day with the pain of those who were no longer here, with the strength of those who had resisted and the hope of what we were going to build, perhaps could not imagine that four decades later we would be facing the institutional transfer of the government.
From one political force to another of a different nature, both elected by the people. And I, who at that time was a young lawyer who had just graduated from a public university, did not even think at that moment that the people of my country would grant me the immense honor of reaching today as president of the Argentine men and women. women. That is why today, on the last day of the presidential mandate with which the citizens distinguished me, I want to review some milestones of these years, share the successes, reflect on the mistakes we made, tell those who will succeed us what is the state of the State that They will receive and appreciate the effort, sacrifice and generosity of so many who did not give up during this time.