Five candidates, but no absolute winner. The election results in Argentina They have a ‘clear’ winner, yes, the Peronist Sergio Massa, but not with enough support to become president of the Nation. With almost 100% of the votes, Massa would have added more than 36.6% of the electorate’s support, while his main opponent, the far-right Javier Milei, has touched 30% of the ballots. Although he is seven points ahead, the Argentine electoral system prevents Massa from becoming president directly, but instead forces the two main candidates to face each other in a second roundwhich in some countries is also known runoff.

He Argentine electoral calendarfrom now on, it happens as follows: second round of electionsto which only the pairings of Massa and Milei will be presented, is the Sunday, November 19. Until then, the final data from the first round – which They have no legal validity—, which will be known once the final scrutiny of the ballots is completed (which starts on October 24 and must end before November 3).

Looking ahead to this runoff or second round, The two candidates will also face each other in an in-person debate, which will take place at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires a week before the elections, on Sunday, November 12. Once the elections are held, the winner will be the definitive president of the Nation, who will take office on December 10.

The binomials of Massa and Milei

Massa and Milei are not the only ones who face each other on November 19 in the second round. They both do it in a formula that its candidates also integrate for the vice presidency, in addition to a complete list of candidates for national deputies and senators and some other local positions.

The vice presidential candidate for Unión por la Patria is Agustín Rossithe current Chief of Staff, since last February, after having been Alberto Fernández’s Minister of Defense.

On the side of La Libertad Avanza, Javier Milei’s party, accompanies the far-right Victoria Villarruelone of the signatories of what is known as the Madrid Letter, a document published by Iberosfera, Vox’s propaganda organ, which she joined as president of the CELTYV Civil Association and Human Rights lawyer in Argentina.