Javier Milei has won Argentina\u2019s presidential elections in provisional results, wrenching his country to the right with a bombastic anti-establishment campaign, against the backdrop of one of the world\u2019s highest inflation rates. <\/p>\n
His rival Sergio Massa conceded the run-off vote on Sunday evening in a brief speech even before official results were announced. <\/p>\n
\u201cMilei is the president elected for the next 4 years,\u201d said Massa, adding that he had already called Milei to congratulate him. <\/strong> <\/p>\n Milei\u2019s victory marks an extraordinary rise for the former TV pundit, who entered the race as a political outsider on a promise to \u201cbreak up with the status quo\u201d \u2013 exemplified by Sergio Massa. <\/p>\n His campaign promise to dollarize Argentina, if enacted, is expected to thrust the country into new territory: no country of Argentina\u2019s size has previously turned over the reins of its own monetary policy to Washington decisionmakers. <\/p>\n Milei has also said he would slash government spending by closing Argentina\u2019s ministries of culture, education, and diversity, and by eliminating public subsidies. He is a social conservative with ties to the American right; he opposes abortion rights and has called climate change a \u201clie of socialism.\u201d <\/p>\n Milei\u2019s victory will be closely scrutinized around the world as a potential sign of a resurgence of far-right populism. Milei has ties to the American right, and former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro had endorsed Milei\u2019s candidacy <\/p>\n Public opinion polls had shown the two candidates neck-and-neck in recent weeks. <\/p>\n Massa is a lifelong politician whose candidacy in contrast with Milei\u2019s had come to represent Argentina\u2019s political establishment. While inflation has reached painful heights \u2013 142% year on year \u2013 during his tenure, Massa sought to argue that the government\u2019s current actions are already paying dividends, with inflation for the month of October 35% lower than in September. <\/p>\n\n Javier Milei has won Argentina\u2019s presidential elections in provisional results, wrenching his country to the right with a bombastic anti-establishment campaign, against the backdrop of one of the world\u2019s highest inflation rates. His rival Sergio Massa conceded the run-off vote on Sunday evening in a brief speech even before official results were announced. \u201cMilei is <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}