Poll vault: Argentina’s Peronist surprise
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The Economist
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
After dominating the polls for months, Javier Miliei, a right-wing firebrand, was outshone by the candidate from the ruling Peronist administration. We examine why Mr Milei fell so short and the run-off to come. Cross-border assassinations may be rising—and states seem to be more daring in carrying them out (11:46). And remembering Ofir Libstein, an Israeli mayor killed by Hamas (19:30)
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| 0:47.0 | The murder in June of a Sikh separatist activist in Canada brought with it accusations of cross-border foul play. |
| 0:57.1 | Political killings are as old as politics itself, but their incidents may be rising and states are becoming bolder in carrying them out. |
| 1:06.7 | And Ophir Libstein was an Israeli mayor who founded a flower festival largely to prove that there was more to life in his modest patch of land near the Gaza |
| 1:15.4 | strip than just the threat of Hamas. |
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| 1:42.0 | But first... For months Argentina's presidential race seemed to be dominated by one man. Have Javier Milay. |
| 1:46.6 | The libertarian economist and television personality broke through in the primaries earlier this year |
| 1:51.8 | and has led opinion polls since. |
| 1:54.8 | He's got radical plans to cut through the state. |
| 1:57.7 | He's often seen holding a chainsaw as a promise to do things like dollarize the economy |
| 2:01.9 | and take state-owned companies private. |
| 2:07.0 | All that couldn't be more unlike the current ruling party which subscribes to the principles of Peronism a left-wing |
| 2:14.7 | brand of populism that's been Argentina's dominant ideology over most of the past seven decades. |
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