Argentina votes this Sunday in an election marked by the ultra candidacy of Javier Milei

The polling stations will open this Sunday so that more than 35 million Argentines can exercise their right to vote in general elections marked in the preceding months by the emergence of a radical third way that aspires to break the traditional struggle between Peronists and conservatives by the hand of ultranationalist Javier Milei, who surprised the primary elections by beating the theoretical favorites for the Presidency.

Argentina will elect 130 deputies, 24 senators and regional officials in a day that, however, will have as its main attraction the fight to reach the Casa Rosada. The current president, Alberto Fernández, declined to run, so whoever wins this Sunday – or on November 19 in case a second round is necessary – in December the South American country will have its new head of state.

The surveys indicate that The final winner will not emerge from this first round, since a direct victory would imply exceeding 45% of the votes or at least obtaining more than 40% if it is accompanied by a difference of more than ten points over the most direct rival. In primaries, none of the candidates met these requirements.

Not even Milei, who as a candidate for Freedom Advances It became the big surprise by obtaining three out of every ten votes. Standard bearer of the so-called libertarians, his messages on social matters leave no room for doubt and he advocates prohibiting abortion, while questioning the official figure of 30,000 disappeared during the last dictatorship.

He wants to put an end to “the caste model” and advocates reducing the role of the State to a minimum, within a battery of messages that would be having a special echo among citizens on the economic side. Among his proposals is the dollarization of the Argentine economy to alleviate the devaluation of the peso in a country that accumulates an interannual inflation of more than 100 percent.

In front of him he will have Sergio Massa, precisely the current Minister of Economy in the Fernández Government, who is presented as a candidate for Union for the Homeland. In his campaign messages, he has accompanied allusions to certain changes with messages of a continuing nature in which he has particularly addressed the working class, the traditional fishing ground for Peronism’s votes.

The third candidate with options is Patricia Bullrich, former Minister of Security during the presidential period of Mauricio Macri. Although her political origins date back to the Peronist youth, she is considered a representative of the hardest wing of Together for Change and also promises to restrict the role of the State, although not to the dialectical or theoretical level of Milei.