The ultraliberal and “anti-system” Javier Milei won the Argentine presidential election this Sunday, ahead of the Minister of the Economy Sergio Massa. The latter conceded defeat.
Argentina, tense as rarely in 40 years of democracy, voted this Sunday to elect its president. The ultraliberal and “anti-system” Javier Milei, who received 29.99% of the votes in the first round, won, conceded his rival Sergio Massa, current Minister of the Economy. According to the first partial results, Javier Milei is the winner with 55.95% of the votes.
Javier Milei, 53, “is the president that the majority of Argentines have elected for the next four years,” said Sergio Massa, who came first in the first round on October 22.
The Minister of Economy indicated, in front of his supporters gathered at his campaign headquarters in Buenos Aires, that he had called Javier Milei to “congratulate him and wish him good luck”.
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