Who are the five candidates for the presidency of Argentina?

The Argentines They will choose on Sunday, October 22, among five candidates for the president’s successor Alberto Fernandez for a government period of four years.

Some 35 million Argentines are called to the elections in which 24 seats in the Senate and 130 national deputies will also be renewed and several authorities will be elected, such as the mayor of Buenos Aires and the governor of the province of the same name, the largest in the country.

Below is a detail of who are the candidates for the presidency in alphabetical order:

Myriam Bregman

She is 51 years old, she is a deputy and candidate for the Left Front and Unit Workers. She has a long history as a feminist and was a plaintiff lawyer in several trials against repressors of the last military dictatorship (1976-1983). This is not the first time that she aspires to government, since in the 2015 general elections she was a candidate for vice president for the same left front.

Proposed that “The crisis will be paid for by those who generated it, which are the big businessmen, the banks and the landowners.”, as well as breaking with the International Monetary Fundnot pay the debt of some US$ 44,000 million and that that money be used to improve salaries and generate work.

Given the escalation of inflation, he proposes that salaries and pensions be adjusted once a month. He rejects large-scale mining and proposes the expropriation of multinationals that invest in the mining and energy sector in Argentina without compensation.

Patricia Bullrich

She is 67 years old, she is a candidate and one of the main leaders of the opposition force Together for Change, center-right. Of Peronist origin, he changed his political ideology and in his most recent public position he held the Ministery of security during the conservative government Mauricio Macri (2015-2019).

His program aims to reform the State and boost production. Defends the independence of central bankzero deficit, the elimination of taxes on grain exports and a system in which the peso and the dollar coexist.

He has spoken out in favor of the free circulation of the US currency and promised to end the current exchange restrictions to encourage investment. In the area of ​​security he defends the reform of the Penal Code to establish a greater framework of legitimate defense for security agents and lowering the age of imputability to 14 years.

Sergio Massa

He is 51 years old, the Peronist candidate Union for the Homeland and current minister of Economy He has aspired to lead the government for years, the last time in 2015. His period at the head of the Economy portfolio for just over a year has included an acceleration of the inflationan increase in poverty and a collapse in the value of the peso.

He claims that he had to leave his position as head of the Chamber of Deputies to take charge of the crisis at the worst moment, which included difficult negotiations to refinance the debt with the International Monetary Fund.

promises to reduce inflationincrease production, improve the purchasing power of employees, fiscal balance, trade surplus, a competitive exchange rate and development with inclusion.

Javier Milei

He is 52 years old, the ultraliberal economist is the leader and candidate of Freedom Advancesstrength with which he won a deputy seat in the Congress in 2021. It defends a comprehensive reform of the State through a drastic cut in public spending.

He proposes closing the central bank considering it responsible for the unchecked emission and dollarizing the economy as ways to annihilate inflation of close to 140% annually. He also defends the privatization of public companies and the elimination of taxes.

In addition, he is against abortion, rejects that climate change is due to man’s actions, questions the sexual education program in schools and identifies with the far-right. Jair Bolsonaro and donald trumpformer presidents of Brazil and the United States.

Juan Schiaretti

He is 74 years old, he is the candidate of We do for our country. He is a veteran Peronist opposed to Kirchnerism who is ending his third term as governor of the province of Córdoba, the country’s second electoral district.

His campaign speech focused on highlighting the policies carried out in the province, such as ending the fiscal deficit. To lower inflation, he proposes “prudence and discipline in monetary issuance, fiscal balance, recomposition of reserves and an intelligent income policy”.

It advocates a federal country, in which one of the priorities is the reconstruction of the railway system, the extension of the school day at the primary level and improving higher education.

With information from AP