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.

  • @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?