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Argentine far-right outsider Javier Milei posts shock win in primary election

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Argentine far-right outsider Javier Milei posts shock win in primary election

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2y ago

Argentine far-right outsider Javier Milei posts shock win in primary election

www.reuters.com /world/americas/argentina-set-primary-vote-with-ruling-peronists-fighting-survival-2023-08-13/

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Argentine far-right outsider Javier Milei posts shock win in primary election

www.reuters.com /world/americas/argentina-set-primary-vote-with-ruling-peronists-fighting-survival-2023-08-13/

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- People keep electing fucking imbeciles
  
  Argentines have been suffering miserably for decades and that is with parties from both the left and the right. They've all been useless. There is literally no one else to vote for.
  
  Argentinian here, he's not great but fucking believe me theyre the best candidate amongst all other 4 that are all supporters of the practices that put us in this decadence.
- We seem to like fast food and fast politics.
  
  Bread and circuses has been a winning strategy with low information voters for as long as democracy has existed.
- He's the only one of the running candidates that hasn't yet had the chance to demonstrate the country that he's a putrid corrupt that will put himself before the people on every fucking step of the way as the others did over, and over, and over again, they normalized corruption so much that the average Argentinian believes that corruption is the only possible way to run a country, and there's nothing left to steal. People worry about the loss of rights, but we haven't been able to pay for adequate rights in a while.
  He's also the only one with a reasonable plan to actually stop the inflation that the other 2 parties brew for the past 20 years.
A country in crisis picks a fascist that will undoubtedly make things much, much worse. As if nobody learnt a single thing from the past.
- Look at the Philippines, we elected the son of the former dictator. And it was a landslide victory. I can't still believe he won.
- The voters feel they have no alternative. They've tried the traditional left and the traditional right and both parties failed them.
  Take El Salvador. They elected a fascist in 2019. He's turned the nation into a police state and locked up tens of thousands of young men without a trial. But his approval rating is currently 80% .. the highest in Latin America. The reason ? When he took office in 2019 the homicide rate was 51 per 100k people. It's now 8. People can walk down the street without fear. Gangs no longer harass young girls and extort protection money from local businesses.
  If we want people to reject fascists we need to give them alternatives that actually work.
- The left wing governments have messed up so much that the people are voting into the far right as a knee jerk reaction.
  
  Except in countries where the far right have messed up in which case the opposite is happening.
  Basically the takeaway is from this that everyone is kind of shit. The populations tend to just flip flop between ideologies every couple of decades.
  Basically it's the political equivalent of yo-yo dieting you don't actually end up any better off.
- Please look up the definition of fascist.
  
  Please clap.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
With some 90% of ballots counted, far-right libertarian economist Javier Milei had 30.5% of the vote, far higher than predicted, with the main conservative opposition bloc behind on 28% and the ruling Peronist coalition in third place on 27%.
The result is a stinging rebuke to the center-left Peronist coalition and the main Together for Change conservative opposition bloc with inflation at 116% and a cost-of-living crisis leaving four in 10 people in poverty.
The October election will be key for policy affecting Argentina's huge farm sector, one of the world's top exporters of soy, corn and beef, the peso currency and bonds, and ongoing talks over a $44 billion debt deal with the International Monetary Fund.
As polls closed in the early evening after voting system glitches caused long lines in capital Buenos Aires, all the talk in campaign hubs was about Milei, a brash outsider who has pledged to shutter the central bank and dollarize the economy.
In the most important leadership race, within the Together for Change coalition, hard-line conservative Patricia Bullrich, a former security minister, beat out moderate Buenos Aires Mayor Horacio Larreta, who pledged to get behind her campaign.
Whoever wins in October, or more likely in a November runoff, will have big decisions to make on rebuilding depleted foreign reserves, boosting grains exports, reining in inflation and on how to unwind a thicket of currency controls.
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Low effort comment: He looks like an evil Beatles member
- He looks like one of Bilbo's judgey neighbors
Is he going to try and take the Falklands again?
- No. He always sort of knew they belonged to England. /s
- Ignorant post, with ignorant comments.
Libertarians are not far right.
- Libertarianism as a philosophy may not be. Libertarian as a modern political entity surely is.
  Im not a fan of either, but you have to realize at this point the name has been hijacked by the far right chuds of the world.

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