Yeah, she would need something different for such purchases, you are right.

I hope for that politician to use BTC to its fullest potential, however, she would really need another currency to get it to be used daily if that's what she envisions.
I hope she understands this and many other intricacies too 

When seeing her X profile we can really see that she's been heavily supported by Bitcoin users. She is also proactive towards promoting bitcoin in their country so this is good towards starting up some good adoption in their country since if they people would provably decide to elect pro bitcoin politician then for sure that there's something good future will happen to their country. Looking at her profile its like he's really into bitcoin and to many people donate to campaign here presidency.

Hopefully we can see those Pro bitcoin candidate win since this would be truly helpful to the ecosystem. Now Suriname is in the radar of bitcoin users in the world and monitoring the result of their upcoming election.

Most politicians just say what people would love to hear and things that would make them sound cool among the voters, but if you look at what they say, they're unrealistic.
I'm seeing things like "eliminating the central bank" and "adopting Bitcoin as a national currency," which isn't even in her power to do even if she really wants to.
First, what is a country without a central bank? How will a country's fiscal and monetary policy like that work? Have they thought this through?

I think it's high time voters start asking the right questions of their candidate, instead of just blinding supporting them because they're of the same party.
How exactly is she going to do this? Everybody would love reduced taxes, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. And privatize public services? When has that ever been a good idea? I can just go about her points all day. A lot of them are something else.

This is a great first step for him in running for office but we also need to see how his country accepts bitcoin before that so that important points can be pursued when campaigning.

I welcome the idea but running a country is not an easy matter and it takes the best skills for anyone running for president. Furthermore, the journey of bitcoin will improve when a political figure starts to echo bitcoin and this will achieve wider adoption for the community when political figures start to dare to be open.

The next step can be seen when he is elected, whether the campaign involving bitcoin is just a strategy to achieve victory or he wants to make some rules for bitcoin so that it can grow more in the country.

He won't close it, the Central Bank of Argentina has also other functions than to "print money". There is only one relatively large country without central bank (Panama). However, Panama has a quite special history as it never had a central bank and was part of Colombia until 1904, and when it became independent it already introduced the US dollar.

For Suriname, I guess the plan could be more realistic. Suriname seems to have had problems regarding its currency stability in the recent past, like a overly tightly controlled forex market. So I can imagine her proposals become popular.

This is also interesting, according to Bitcoin Mag:


So if they implement Bitcoin infrastructure better than Chivo they could really make Bitcoin a lot more popular than in El Salvador. Of course they would also need to popularize Lightning or another kind of second layer.

Regarding Bitcoin bonds, it would be interesting how exactly these would work. The "Volcano Bonds" in El Salvador can probably not be the model to follow here as they're essentially bonds in US dollars, only that they're used to finance Bitcoin-related activities.

I've looked for polls for the election (which will take place in May 2025) but didn't find anything (only an old poll from 2023 for the parlamentary election which showed a left-leaning party ahead).

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Some slightly OT remarks about Argentina

It's not really a shutdown because the structure persists, it only is being re-organized and renamed, some people were fired. The tax agency now will be called ARCA (before it was AFIP). This is completely okay but more of a "cosmetic" change.

This is also misleading, because the 256,9% increase is in nominal terms in Argentine Pesos and inflation was even higher (close to 300%).

Many people from the Bitcoin community tend to idealize Milei. But until now his results have been mixed, I'd not call his presidency neither "good" nor "bad".

The rent prices decrease is really an achievement because the regulation before was overly burocratic, and in other areas he's also reducing bureaucracy which is a good thing. But his measures regarding exchange market policy and de-regulation had also a cost: >3% recession, increasing unemployment, and poverty has skyrocketed to over 50% (it was 35-45% in the pandemic and post-pandemic years). Yes, that's what a "shock therapy" always looks like and his voters knew that. The challenge is however to solve Argentina's economic problems (low productivity, incomplete industrial structure with many dependencies from external suppliers) in the long term, and I have some feeling that his measures can only calm some short term imbalances. Let's see.

I do not think that it's a trend. It just so happens that we're in the Bitcoin community and squeezes every single possibility that a candidate that's running for president or any public office knows or likes Bitcoin.

With that, we believe that they're already supporters of it even it's just a word of mouth.

And with these politicians, they're up for any movement that they can gather votes so they'd say good things about them to get the sympathy and guaranteed votes that they need to win.

I don't think she would be able to do something outstanding - after all, she is a politician.
And they can say many beautiful things, however, they may not be fulfilled in the end.
We should be able to see the results of her deeds in the future.

Well let me just say that I hope she is victorious. Bitcoin is still relatively niche in mainstream political space but we will start to see more & more politicians actively disclosing personal ownership of Bitcoin. We are still early but they will come in their hordes.

Nayib Bukele campaigned with Bitcoin and has been friendly to the sector since he became President. Faustin-Archange Touadéra of Central African Republic made Bitcoin a legal tender but the law was later repelled due to some reasons. Donald Trump has made some good promises to the Bitcoin Industry, election is next month. We will have to wait to see if he will fulfil all his promises. One thing is sure politicians will favour centralization because they will always want to control the financial system of the country. But El Salvador had proved that the government can buy and hodl Bitcoin as an investment.