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Argentina’s Alberto Fernandez & Cristina Kirchner crush president Macri in ‘preliminary elections’
Argentina President Mauricio Macri has conceded his defeat in the primary elections after suffering a massive loss to the center-left nominee Alberto Fernandez and his running mate former President Cristina Kirchner.
“We’ve suffered a bad election,” right-wing Macri said Sunday night after preliminary results were announced, giving him 32.36 percent of the vote, while Fernandez obtained 47.22 percent. Center-right Roberto Lavagna came in third with 8.39 percent.
The nationwide primary elections, introduced in Argentina in 2011, are held simultaneously for all parties and serve a good indication of how the presidential race would swing when people vote in October 27 general election.
Argentina's preliminary election results show the left-wing alliance Frente de Todos, which combines Peronism and Kirchnerism — led by Alberto Fernández and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner — crushing incumbent right-wing President Macri, who took the biggest IMF loan in history pic.twitter.com/w9c1gXRpmn
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Fernandez who served as the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers during Nestor Kirchner’s presidency vowed to create a “new” Argentina. “Argentinians realized we are the change not them,” Fernandez said during his victory speech in Buenos Aires, promising “to end this time of lies and give a new horizon.”
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