2023-11-20 07:52:39
The La Libertad Avanza candidate defeated the ruling party Sergio Massa with 91.81% of the tables counted.
The candidate of Freedom AdvancesJavier Milei, will be the president of Argentina having obtained 55.89% of the votes, with 91.81% of the tables counted, thus defeating the ruling party Sergio Massa, who added 44.10% of the votes, as revealed this Sunday (11/19/2023).
The data was transmitted shortly before 8:30 p.m. (23:30 GMT), after Massa acknowledged defeat: “Today a stage in my political life ends,” said the Peronist, who, as Minister of Economy, will now have to face the management of the most delicate piece of the transition with the new Government.
Javier Milei: «Today the reconstruction of Argentina begins»
«The model of decadence has come to an end. There is no turning back,” Milei said to his followers, after winning the second presidential round. “Enough of the impoverishing model of caste, today we embrace freedom to once again be a world power,” she added.
«Let it be understood well: the situation in Argentina is critical. The changes our country needs are drastic. There is no place for gradualism, there is no place for lukewarmness, there is no place for half measures,” said the leader of Libertad Avanza.
«We have monumental problems ahead: inflation, stagnation, lack of genuine employment, insecurity, poverty and destitution. Problems that only have a solution if we once again embrace the ideas of freedom,” Milei added.
The Argentine second round
According to what was counted, 13,471,456 voters supported Milei, while 10,644,709 supported the Minister of Economy.
Some 35.8 million Argentine people were called to elect president and vice president in the second runoff in history, after the one held in 2015, when the center-right Mauricio Macri won victory over the Peronist Daniel Scioli for his 2015-2019 Government. .
Furthermore, in 2003, Carlos Menem and Néstor Kirchner had to contest a second round, since neither of them obtained enough percentage to win in the first round – 45% or a minimum of 40% and 10 percentage points over the next leader with the most votes. . However, Menem, who had been president between 1989 and 1999, retired. This made the governor of Santa Cruz until then assume the leadership of the Argentine State for the period 2003-2007.
This Sunday’s election day recorded 76.37% participation, the second lowest in history after the 76.2% in 2007, when the Peronist Cristina Fernández won, thus beginning the first of her two terms (2007- 2011 and 2011-2015).
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