by Jose Nino, Big League Politics:

On August 13, 2023, Javier Milei, a libertarian economist and firebrand media pundit, won Argentina’s presidential primary election.

Milei, who is campaigning on a robust free-market platform, picked up 30.1% of the vote on August 13. His performance surpassed pollsters’ expectations of 20%. In picking up these votes, Milei’s Freedom Advances party is now ahead of the center-Right Together for Change party,at 28.3%, and the incumbent populist coalition Union for the Homeland, which picked up 27.2%.