With 76 percent of votes counted in Argentina presidential race, Economy Minister Sergio Massa leads Javier Milei Party.
Argentina's Economy Minister Sergio Massa and anti-establishment outsider Javier Milei will face off in a run-off presidential election, according to partial poll results released Sunday.
In order to win outright and avoid a November 19 runoff, a candidate needed to get 45 percent of the vote, or 40 percent with a 10-point lead over the runner-up.The highly polarized election will determine whether South America’s second-largest economy will continue with a center-left administration or elect one of the right-leaning leaders who both promised profound changes to a country plagued by triple-digit inflation and rising poverty.
In the run-up to the vote, Milei, who has been a lawmaker in Argentina’s lower house of Congress since 2021, was the undisputed star of the campaign. He rocked Argentina’s political landscape when he unexpectedly received the most votes in August primaries.
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