Surprisingly, contrary to polls that indicated a loss of momentum for his candidacy, ultra-rightist Javier Milei emerged from the primary elections in Argentina as the big winner of the primary elections and the country’s biggest political force.
At 11:14 pm, with 69% of the polls cleared, Milei was above all pre-applications individually. Its acronym, La Libertad Avanza, had more votes than all other coalitions.
Milei had 31.85%. Together for the Change, by former president Mauricio Macri, reached 27.77%. Patricia Bullrich won the seat of candidate for the Casa Rosada by the centre-right group.
Macri’s former Minister of Public Security, she surpassed Buenos Aires Mayor Horacio Larreta by more than six percentage points: 16.98% to 10.79%.
The government coalition Unión por la Patria won 26.04% of the votes and positioned itself as only the third force. The Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, had a large majority in this chain: 20.88%. Juan Grabois, with a more left-wing agenda, reached 5.16%.
Although he was chosen as a pre-candidate for the government, Massa maintains his distance from the so-called “root Kirchnerism”. His name was only anointed because, for the political group close to President Alberto Fernández and Vice President Cristina Kirchner, he would be the only one minimally competitive in the October presidential elections.
The Argentine government took more than four hours, after the polls closed, to release the first official bulletin with the partial results. It was heavily criticized by various political segments, by the local media and international observers.
Milei, with almost a third of the national electorate’s preference, surpassed his rivals in most of the country’s provinces.
The idea, disseminated among many analysts and political consultants, that it was a popular phenomenon only in Buenos Aires and around the capital falls to the ground.
Calling himself a libertarian and presenting himself as an anti-system, Milei defends the dollarization of the economy and the extinction of the Central Bank. He has already promised to legalize the trade in organs, wants to tax public education and health and attacks alleged communist threats in his speeches.
Source: CNN Brasil
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