Far-right populist Javier Milei fails to win first round of Argentina’s presidential election
Far-right populist Javier Milei fails to win first round of Argentina’s presidential election
Potty-mouthed political outsider will head to November runoff with centrist finance minister Sergio Massa
The eccentric far-right populist Javier Milei has failed to win the first round of Argentina’s presidential election, with the centrist finance minister Sergio Massa unexpectedly beating his radical challenger.
Some unexpected good news
38All good news is unexpected these days, lol
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It should be noted that it's not rare for the second place to win the ballotage, as it can now gather voter support from the other opposition parties.
28I thought it was Gary Glitter for a second.
19Wow, you're not kidding
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Good! Stupid 1970’s lookin twat.
15Looks like an aged member of Oasis
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Good job Argentina. o7
Fucking fascist dickbags are everywhere these days.
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11That's exactly the why. Whenever a peronist presidency fails (which is... all of them for the most part), people will vote for the "whatever's not peronism". It's akin to people in the US voting "not rep". You can't think of this as right/left, it's "populists you know that never fix things, vs someone else that might be a nuclear bomb on the economy and everything else but current status quo is already a guaranteed death sentence albeit slower so might as well try something new". That's the pendulum swinging hard in the opposite direction, people don't vote for the status quo when in desperation and crisis. This time it's just more extreme than usual. It doesn't help that there's not a single actually good option that you'd say "yeah, I can live with this" available.
16It was big news on lemmy yesterday.
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Good to see for Sergio.
3He looks like Jeremy Clarkson in the 90's.
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