2023-11-20 05:14:41
The polls have closed and Argentina has already elected its next president. The far-right Javier Milei prevailed over the ruling party Sergio Massa and is officially the elected leader of the Argentines.
Although all the votes have not yet been counted, Milei already has a 10% lead and victory is imminent. Massa, the Peronist Minister of Economy, acknowledged her defeat: “the results are not what we expected. “I have contacted Javier Milei to congratulate him and to wish him luck because he is the president that the majority of Argentines elected for the next four years,” said the Minister of Economy.
While the new president-elect declares his victory and gives his first speech as president, the entire world watches how a man far from Argentina’s traditional parties managed to win the elections.
Who is Javier Milei, the new president of Argentina?
Irascible, frank, spontaneous, the ultraliberal economist Javier Milei became known thanks to the vehemence of his economic diatribes and broke the mold of the Argentine political two-party system until reaching the Presidency this Sunday with the promise of dollarization.
With statements against the “parasitic and stupid political caste” [ladrona]”, the libertarian convinced more than half of Argentines to “dynamite” the Central Bank, reduce the size of the State and cut public spending.
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Argentina navigates three-digit annual inflation and poverty that affects 40% of its population. It is in the context of these economic sorrows that voters chose his disruptive program over the proposal of his rival, Economy Minister Sergio Massa, a centrist Peronist.
Milei denies that there is a wage gap between men and women, considers abortion a murder and believes that “policies that blame humans for climate change are false.”
It also rejects the consensus of 30,000 disappeared during the last dictatorship (1976-1983) established by human rights organizations, estimating that figure at less than a third.
With proposals like these, which before in Argentina “were marginal and now became central,” he became a leader of “an unusual public relevance for the hardest right in Argentina,” Gabriel Vommaro, a political scientist at the University, told AFP. of San Martin.
More Argentines voted in the second round
At 5:00 pm sharp this Sunday, the authorities gave the order to end the voting and begin the pre-counting of votes for the presidential second round.
According to data from the National Electoral Chamber, participation was 78%, although the percentage may increase, since electoral legislation stipulates that whoever is in line at closing time will be able to exercise their right. In the first round, 74 percent voted, according to official data, so it is estimated that participation increased.
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