130 deputies, 24 senators and regional positions will be elected, and if one of the presidential candidates receives 45% of the vote, which does not seem feasible, a runoff on November 19 will be avoided.
Polling stations open this Sunday to allow more than 35 million Argentinians to exercise their right to vote in a general election that has been marked in recent months by the emergence of a radical third way that aims to end the traditional struggle between Peronists and conservatives by the hand of ultranationalist Javier Milei, who surprised the primaries by defeating the theoretical favorites for the presidency.
Argentina will elect 130 deputies, 24 senators and regional officials on a day whose main attraction, however, will be the battle for Casa Rosada. The current president, Alberto Fernández, declined to stand as a candidate, so whoever wins this Sunday – or on November 19 if a runoff is necessary – the South American country will have its new head of state in December.
This is evident from the studies The eventual winner will not emerge from this first round, as an outright victory would imply obtaining more than 45% of the vote or at least more than 40% if this is accompanied by a difference of more than ten points over the most direct rival. In the primaries, none of the candidates met these requirements.
Not even Milei, who is running for office Freedom progress It became the big surprise by receiving three out of ten votes. As the standard-bearer of the so-called libertarians, his messages on social issues leave no doubt and he advocates the ban on abortion, while at the same time questioning the official figure of 30,000 people who disappeared during the last dictatorship.
He wants to put an end to ‘the caste model’ and advocates minimizing the role of the state, within a series of messages that would have a particular resonance among citizens on the economic side. Among the proposals is the dollarization of Argentina’s economy to ease the devaluation of the peso in a country experiencing year-on-year inflation of more than 100 percent.
In front of him is Sergio Massa, precisely the current Minister of Economy in the Fernández government, who is presented as a candidate for Union for the Fatherland. In his campaign messages, he has accompanied allusions to certain changes with messages of a continuing nature, mainly addressing the working class, the traditional fishing ground for the voices of Peronism.
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 world’s hardest wing Together for change and also promises to limit the role of the state, although not to the dialectical or theoretical level of Milei.
Source: EITB
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