Far-right populist Javier Milei fails to win first round of Argentina’s presidential election

agent_flounder , 8 months ago

Good job Argentina. o7

Fucking fascist dickbags are everywhere these days.

Substance_P , 8 months ago

I thought it was Gary Glitter for a second.

Salamendacious OP , 8 months ago

Wow, you’re not kidding

Gary Glitter

xc2215x , 8 months ago

Good to see for Sergio.

Lanusensei87 , 8 months ago

It should be noted that it’s not rare for the second place to win the ballotage, as it can now gather voter support from the other opposition parties.

Andyzoot , 8 months ago

He looks like Jeremy Clarkson in the 90's.

Lophostemon , 8 months ago

Good! Stupid 1970’s lookin twat.

AceQuorthon , 8 months ago

Looks like an aged member of Oasis

fosforus , 8 months ago

Was it expected that he would win? It’s a rather radical departure in the traditionally peronist Argentina that he would become even the second in the first round of this race.

Snorf , 8 months ago

It was big news on lemmy yesterday.

redeven , 8 months ago

That’s exactly the why. Whenever a peronist presidency fails (which is… all of them for the most part), people will vote for the “whatever’s not peronism”. It’s akin to people in the US voting “not rep”. You can’t think of this as right/left, it’s “populists you know that never fix things, vs someone else that might be a nuclear bomb on the economy and everything else but current status quo is already a guaranteed death sentence albeit slower so might as well try something new”. That’s the pendulum swinging hard in the opposite direction, people don’t vote for the status quo when in desperation and crisis. This time it’s just more extreme than usual. It doesn’t help that there’s not a single actually good option that you’d say “yeah, I can live with this” available.

raoul , 8 months ago

Some unexpected good news

frunch , 8 months ago

All good news is unexpected these days, lol