INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN- The results of Argentina's August 14 primary presidential election offer insight into the accumulated social dissolution of the
percent of the ballot boxes, and the center-right opposition coalition "Together for Change" came in second with 28.1 percent of the
Massa, the current minister of economy representing Peronism, was the second candidate with the highest number of votes, securing 21.4%; but
elections, with a voter turnout of 69.6 percent, making it one of the lowest turnouts on record for a presidential election since the
dominated for years by two established movements, Peronism and the center-right, has now been rocked by a far-right candidate winning the
majority of the primary election
years, the political climate had already been dealt a shock by Javier Milei's proposals to dollarize the economy, privatize state-owned
revived the memories of politicians such as Donald Trump (whom he admires), and Jair Bolsonaro, the former presidents of the United States
and Brazil; especially when the far-right candidate jumps at every opportunity to denounce social welfare programs that have benefited the
discontent prevailing in the country
evident is that more than a decade of economic stagnation and the worsening cost-of-living crisis during the government of Alberto Fernandez
created a growing sense of despair among the nation
This led to the support of a third of the voters for a candidate who saw the traditional parties that the president introduced to blame for
conditions.The same economic crisis that the people of this country suffer from every day, inflation has reached over 100%, poverty is on
the rise and while the country has negative net foreign currency reserves of $4.5 billion to $7 billion, the International Monetary Fund is
President Alberto Fernandez and his Vice President Cristina Kirchner withdrew from the race, with the Peronist's Massa entering the
center-right Together for Change bloc, with voters never taking its candidate Horacio Larreta seriously and scrutinizing him as a possible
competed against each other to such an extent that they ended up presenting an incoherent representation of government opposition that even
hand, former president Mauricio Macri will play a key role in ensuring the internal unity of Together for Change coalition and mobilize
and whose libertarian governance image would spell the end of his government; yet nevertheless represents the exhaustion of Argentines'
remains to be seen whether the fate of Argentina will fall in the hands of an outsider who said "I did not get in here to be leading the
lambs, I came to wake up the lions" in the first hours after his initial victory in the primary elections, or whether Peronism and the
opposition coalition will take advantage of the alarm of these results in the weeks leading to the October 22, 2023 presidential
