Argentina’s Presidential Election did not produce a winning candidate on Sunday, October 22, 2023, because no candidate received at least 45% of the vote or received at least 40% of the vote with at least a 10 percentage point lead over the second place candidate. So, progressive candidate Sergio Massa (with 36% of the vote) and somewhat libertarian candidate Javier Milei (at 30%) will proceed to a runoff election to be won by plurality vote on Sunday, November 19.
Here is a story.
Here is the Wikipedia article on this election.
Milei is pretty much as ideal a candidate as possible, particularly in a fairly major country in 2023. It’s amazing that he’s in the runoff, and hopefully he will win.
HOW MANY SOUTH OF THE USA BORDER REGIMES ARE N-O-T MACHO MONARCH REGIMES ???
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https://apnews.com/article/argentina-election-milei-massa-vote-runoff-a603b4e3edf851cc47d0117738173b35
AP STORY
AP is fake news and there are no monarchies in Latin America.
I agree with you Corvette. Best wishes to Milei. Argentina needs major changes to its government warped economy.
Reason hit and run did a hilarious attempt takedown of Milei as “not a real libertarian” and succeeded only in proving he is not a classical liberal, which he never to my knowledge claims to be. The authors seem blissfully unaware, or would like their readers to so be, that libertarianism is not liberalism, and need not embrace or encompass liberalism. Every point they raise in objection and rebuke to Milei, or just about, is a point in his favor, and a point on which he is better than what they consider to be “real” libertarians.
https://reason.com/2023/10/21/is-javier-mileis-movement-in-argentina-a-cult-of-personality-in-the-name-of-liberty/
Milei proves that libertarianism without liberalism can be both popular and populist, somewhat along the terms of Ron Paul and a good chunk of the Trump base in the USA.
Peronists did somewhat better than whatever the global elitists tried to introduce as expectations with their fake news propaganda ahead of the election, leaving supporters of the fake right opposition up for grabs in the runoff. Those same globalists would now like us to believe that spells doom for Milei in the runoff. Keep in mind these are the same people who assured us first that Trump couldn’t win in Republican primaries, and later that he could not win in the general election, in 2016. Believe nothing of their analysis and projections, which are a toxic mix of dishonesty, wishful thinking, hubris, and utter idiocy.
Milei is an excellent candidate, and stands an excellent chance, for all the exact reasons that libtards and libtardtarians can’t stand him.
Political labels are a game. Everyone, pro and con, makes them mean what they want them to mean. Often, a label will change its meaning over time, and the process of changing it is accomplished both by supporters and detractors.
The term “libertarianism” was originally not even a political term. It was a philosophical term to denote belief in free will.
That’s how language functions. It’s not a unique property of political terms.
1776 *LIBERAL* VS 2023 *LIBERAL* AKA COMMIE ???
Duh.