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.

Supporters of Milei, a potty-mouthed political outsider described as an Argentinian mashup of Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro and Boris Johnson, had hoped he was heading for a sensational outright victory similar to Bolsonaro’s shock triumph in Brazil in 2018.

  • @SkullgridEnglish
    15•1 year ago

    but is far removed from social conservatism.

    Whats His opinion on abortion and crime?

    • @FireTowerEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      On abortion it looks like he opposes it outside of cases where the mother’s life is in danger. On crime his wiki is pretty vague just that he wants to ‘crack down’ on crime and prohibit migrants with a criminal history from entry.

      • @SkullgridEnglish
        32•1 year ago

        Let me put it better for you, he wants to ban abortion and he wants to let people form vigilante mobs to take care of crime and bring back the dictatorship, which he is keen on whitewashing

        • @ls64English
          -1•1 year ago

          The lame thing is if that wasn’t his main social policies I would understand his voters a lot more.

      • @rambarooEnglish
        9•1 year ago

        So he’s a social conservative?