Changes in Argentina
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Pureon’s party Alberto Fernández to the left of the Peronist has been heavily defeated in Argentina’s central race, which has also claimed that most state senators are at risk of November’s election.
The opposition center-right Juntos (Together) recorded the biggest victory since its inception in 2015, getting 41% of the national vote compared to 30% of the state, and 96% of the vote.
Voting should be compulsory in Argentina’s first round of elections, so a run-off election will be a two-month election, with half of the lower house and one-third of the senate re-elected.
On Sunday’s vote Juntos won in a number of key states including Buenos Aires, a Peronist refugee camp home to a third of Argentina’s population.
Voters were outraged by the government’s failure to deliver on its promises to curb inflation, raise wages and boost the economy. The Peronists set up another long-term strategy in the world, which led to economic collapse but still could not prevent disease. Argentina is one of the deadliest deaths on the Covid-19 in the world.
“We know the world is full of sadness and sadness, not a lot of celebrations. But today we have made the first step in changing the situation, “said opposition leader María Eugenia Vidal, who won a landslide victory in Buenos Aires.
Impressed by two well-known opponents, former President Mauricio Macri and Buenos Aires mayor of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, added: “There is another way to do it, but I believe there is no way back.”
The La Nación newspaper published the idea that if Sunday’s results were repeated in the November 14 election, the Peronists would run for two lower seats in the senate.
The government already needs more people in a small house.
“Obviously there are some things we didn’t do well, that’s why people didn’t support us,” Fernández said after the first results. “There are voters’ statements that we have not fully met.”
Although Fernández was next in line to vice president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, a powerful former president who is widely regarded as the real prime minister, Fernández is the only speaker. His comments indicate that a change in his management is expected in the coming weeks.
The Peronists received financial hardship from Macri but during their two years in power, poverty continues, annual inflation is now more than 50% and there have been more than 100,000 Covid affiliates.
An ambitious agreement with the IMF to restructure the $ 44bn debt loan has not been met and a further increase this year of 6.4% would not make up for the total loss of land last year, while the economy fell 10%.
Opponents tried to repeat the first victory in November. Vidal garnered 33% of the vote and was joined by two other members of his party – wealthy Ricardo López Murphy and Adolfo Rubinstein of the Radical Party – and the figure rose to 48%, double that of Leandro Santoro.
In the Buenos Aires region, tickets for the Juntos alliance Diego Santilli and Facundo Manes won 38 percent, five points higher than Fernández’s close friend Victoria Tolosa Paz.
Santilli and Vidal have won their primaries and defeated Peronism in the two most important states in the country and are a major factor in the hopes of President Larreta, who supports them all.
Also notable was the rise of former foreign economist Javier Milei, who won 14% of the vote in a campaign against “politics”.