Libertarian economist Javier Milei, presidential candidate of the La Libertad Avanza front, is positioned as the candidate with the most votes in Argentina’s primaries this Sunday, according to the preliminary results of the preliminary check.
With 61.21% of polling stations counted, Milei monopolizes 32.57% of the vote, bringing a surprise not predicted by the surveys leading up to this election.
Although the law stipulates that the first results can be presented from 21:00 (00:00 GMT), the Board already warned that there would be delays in the count and in the publication of data due to, among other things, the delays caused due to the problems with the implementation of electronic voting in the city of Buenos Aires.
Meanwhile, former Argentine security minister Patricia Bullrich said she won the internal competition of the opposition coalition Together for Change (centre-right) this Sunday to run in the presidential election on Oct. 22, drawing on her rival’s congratulations. the mayor of Buenos Aires. Aires, Aires, Horacio Rodriguez Larreta.
“(Rodríguez Larreta) He already called me. He congratulated me,” Bullrich told the TN channel before entering the hall where the opposition formation awaits the results, without any official data yet to be released by the Argentine executive power.
Bullrich, of Peronist descent, is a member of the Republican Proposal (Pro), a party that includes former Argentine President Mauricio Macri (2015-2019), and has become one of the loudest voices in the political arena.
Source: El heraldo
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