{"id":7042,"date":"2023-10-23T00:46:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T04:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=7042"},"modified":"2023-10-23T00:46:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T04:46:08","slug":"argentine-presidential-elections-heading-for-run-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/argentine-presidential-elections-heading-for-run-off\/7042\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentine presidential elections heading for run-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Buenos Aires:<\/strong> Preliminary results from the October 22 presidential elections in Argentina have revealed that the two main candidates are heading for a run-off vote in November as none of them could secure the threshold to be elected. With most of the ballots cast on Sunday now counted, neither left-wing candidate Sergio Massa nor the far-right Javier Milei could garner more than 45 per cent of the votes, reports the BBC. Frontrunner Milei was leading in the polls prior to the vote, but Massa \u2014 the incumbent Economy Minister \u2014 has received 36.2 per cent of ballots so far. Milei has received 30.2 per cent of the votes, according to the preliminary results. Meanwhile, Massa and Milei\u2019s rival former Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, who had pledged to restore \u201corder\u201d to the country, garnered 23.8 per cent of the votes.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s election saw a voter turnout of 74 per cent, the BBC quoted local media as saying. After casting his vote in Buenos Aires on Sunday, outgoing President Alberto Fernandez said in a post on X: \u201cI call on every Argentine to defend it and decide the future of the country at the polls.\u201d Polls before Sunday\u2019s vote had suggested the presidential race could indeed go to a run-off, the BBC reported. For a candidate to win outright in the first round, they would have needed to secure more than 45 per cent of votes \u2013 or 40 per cent plus a margin of 10 percentage points over the closest rival. As well as choosing its new president and vice-president, Argentinians also voted for 130 new representatives for the lower house of Congress, which has 257 members, and 24 new senators for the 72-member upper house. The next president will take office in December to start a four-year term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buenos Aires: Preliminary results from the October 22 presidential elections in Argentina have revealed that the two main candidates are\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":7043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[1913,1916,1917,1918,1914,1915],"class_list":["post-7042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-argentina-presidential-elections","tag-javier-milei","tag-patricia-bullrich","tag-president-alberto-fernandez","tag-run-off-elections","tag-sergio-massa"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}