The Financial Times reports on the surprising primary election performance of a far right candidate, Javier Milei.
Argentina radical rightwinger shakes up presidential race with primary win. by Ciara Nugent
"Javier Milei, a radical libertarian economist and outsider candidate, unexpectedly won Argentina’s primary poll, indicating a strong shift to the right as the South American country prepares to vote in a presidential election.
"Milei, a former television personality and one-term congressional representative who has called for extreme austerity and dollarising Argentina’s economy, won 30.1 per cent of the vote on Sunday, surpassing pollsters’ average forecast of 20 per cent, with 96 per cent of votes counted.
"That put his Freedom Advances party ahead of centre-right force Together for Change, with 28.3 per cent, and the ruling populist coalition Union for the Homeland, whose candidate is centrist economy minister Sergio Massa, which earned 27.2 per cent."
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I'm not a close follower of Argentine politics, but his name rang a bell, and reminded me that I had blogged about him in connection of his support for markets for kidneys. (There's no indication that was an issue in the presidential primaries...)
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