The three candidates will face each other in the elections scheduled for October 22 and a possible runoff on November 19.

The far-right libertarian economist Javier Milei obtained 32.31% of the votes this Sunday (08/13/2023) in the primaries for the presidential election of Argentina, and becomes the protagonist of this election that will be contested by the former Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich and the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa.

The opposition coalition Together for Change (center-right) obtained 27.64% of the votes, combined with its two candidates Bullrich and the mayor of Buenos Aires Horacio Rodríguez Larreta. Massa's ruling Union for the Homeland (Peronism) has 25.69%, with 64.04% of the tables counted.

These three candidates will compete in the general elections to be held on October 22, with a possible runoff on November 19.

Who are the candidates?

With her disheveled hair and an aggressive speech against what she calls "the political caste," Milei became the phenomenon that shook the status quo in these primary elections.

"The caste is afraid." "Long live freedom, damn it!", this 52-year-old economist, a libertarian and far-right deputy who proposes eliminating the Central Bank, allowing the free carrying of weapons and prohibiting abortion, shouted at his rallies.

A 51-year-old lawyer, Sergio Massa assumed the Ministry of Economy a year ago, in one of the worst moments of Argentina's prolonged crisis. Smiling and elegant, he has the ability to present difficulties as achievements, at least among his followers.

67 years old and involved in politics since adolescence, when she was a member of the Peronist Youth in the turbulent 1970s, in the midst of the Montoneros guerrilla activity, Patricia Bullrich offers herself as the strong hand without half measures for a country in crisis. "It's all or nothing," he cries in his advertising messages.