The current Minister of Economy won the elections held yesterday, Sunday, with 36.68% of votes compared to 29.98% for the libertarian economist. Both will compete in the second round for the Argentine Presidency on November 19.
With the 98.51% of tables scrutinizedthe candidate of the ruling coalition Union for the Homeland (Peronism), Sergio Massahas increased its lead by 6.7 points about the candidate of La Libertad Avanza (ultra-right), Javier Mileiwith whom he will compete in Second round by the Argentine Presidency November 19th.
The current Minister of Economy has won the elections held yesterday, Sunday, with a 36.68% votes by 29.98% of the libertarian economist, who have reversed the positions obtained in the PASO (primary, open, simultaneous and mandatory) held on August 13, when Milei won with 29.86% of the vote and Massa came second, with 21.43%.
More of 9.6 million voters have supported the official candidate, despite the difficult socioeconomic context that the country is going through, with a inflation interannual that climbed in September to 138.3%a poverty level of 40.1% and an exchange gap of more than 200%, in which he serves as head of the Treasury Palace.
For their part, almost 7.9 million Argentines have supported the disruptive proposals of the libertarian candidate.
In third positionand out of the ballot that will define who will preside over Argentina from December 10, the candidate of the opposition coalition Together for Change (center-right) has remained, Patricia Bullrichwhich won with 23.83% of the votes, improving its position with respect to the primaries (16.81%) but losing support from its formation as a whole in August (28%).
Argentina has registered a 77.65% participationthe second lowest since the recovery of democracy after the last military dictatorship (1976-1983), exceeding the 76.20% of 2007, when the Peronist Cristina Fernández won for the first of her two terms (2007-2015). ).
Source: Eitb
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