With 86.59 percent of the votes considered, Miley received 55.95 percent of preferences.

Meanwhile, the ruling Massa party had 44.04 percent. Irreversible result.

Definite

Despite the public’s apathy, the contrast between the two proposals has prompted many to vote for what some analysts call the “lesser evil,” which involves vehemently opposing a candidate they don’t want rather than outright supporting one they don’t want. choose. .

Experts predicted profound changes in domestic politics: Peronism could undergo changes, and the ruling party could enter into an alliance with part of the conservative United for Change alliance, which in turn could split.

“This will be an election that will create a deep rupture in the system of political representation in Argentina. I think all the powers as we knew them have been transformed,” analyst Julio Burdman, director of the Electoral Observatory consultancy, told Reuters.

After years of difficulties, the disillusionment of many Argentines with the traditional parties has elevated the newly arrived economist, who in the papal parties had as much chance as Massa, a 51-year-old lawyer, of winning the presidency.

“We did our best. Now let the polls speak (…) Let’s hope that tomorrow there will be more hope and not so much continuous decline,” said Miley after voting in the city of Buenos Aires.

Miley’s disruptive proposals on the economic front, as well as his aggressive style and controversial statements, have given opportunities to the candidate of the centre-left ruling party, a centrist politician who came into the economics portfolio last year in the midst of a crisis that he has failed to reverse.

Miley, who carried a chainsaw at his events to symbolize his proposed cuts in government spending, said he would privatize state-owned companies and reform health and education systems.

The 53-year-old right-wing candidate has questioned the causes of climate change, criticized legal abortion and attacked Pope Francis, who is Argentine.

However, his followers believed that he was the only one capable of overthrowing the “caste,” as Milley, the founder of the La Libertad Avanza party, calls the classical politicians, and putting an end to the desperate annual inflation of 143% and poverty of 40%. %. %.

“I have heard a lot about politics at home because of everything that has happened in these 40 years of democracy, and that is why I believe that we deserve real change (…) our generation is promoting the presidency of (Javier) Miley to remove the country from ostracism,” said Agustina Lista, a 22-year-old student.

The incoming president will also have to deal with empty central bank coffers and a $44 billion debt deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2018.

The destruction caused by Mila led the center-left presidents of Brazil, Mexico and Spain to publicly support Massa, while Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa and former right-wing leaders of Chile and Colombia supported the libertarian. (Reuters).