Flip in Argentina. In the primaries held on Sunday in view of the presidential elections on October 27, the incumbent president, Mauricio Macri, was clearly defeated by Alberto Fernandez, candidate of the Peronist opposition.
At the end of the count, a gap of more than 15 percentage points emerged: the coalition "Front of all" (Front of All) Of Fernandez and the former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner garnered 10,6 million votes, or 48,86% of the total, while the couple Macri-Miguel Angel Pichetto of “Together for change” (Together for Change) stopped at 7,2 million votes, 33,27%.
Macri is conservative and is the son of one of the richest men in the country. Four years ago he won the presidential elections promising to restart the Argentine economy by opening up to international markets. But then he found himself having to manage a new economic crisis, which forced him to ask for the intervention of the International Monetary Fund and to impose a series of austerity measures. Fernández, on the other hand, is the former chief of staff of Cristina Kirchner and her husband Nestor, who died in 2010. He is a university professor of law and is considered a moderate Peronist. As his deputy he chose Cristina Kirchner, president of Argentina from 2007 to 2015.
