Argentina's outsider presidential aspirant, Javier Milei, is a rare breed — a hirsute 52-year-old libertarian economist with a hatred of all things authoritarian, including China’s ruling Communist Party, and a penchant for tantric sex.
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Yet Paul and his fellow travelers never scaled the heights reached by Milei in Argentina, where a dire economic crisis in combination with almost two decades of left-wing rule has finally persuaded voters to look longingly toward Milei. "Liberalism was created to free people from the oppression of monarchs converted into tyrants,” he said in 2021. “It’s logical that the more people are against the ropes and the less they are favored, the more they will embrace the ideas of freedom.”
It’s a sign of the dissatisfaction with the ruling party that Milei’s center-right rivals garnered 28% of the vote. Argentine Economy Minister Sergio Massa, the closest thing to an incumbent in the race, placed third with 27%. Those results leave the candidates little margin for error heading into an October general election likely to culminate in a November runoff between two finalists unless one of the candidates can consolidate 45% of the electorate or beat the others by 10 points.
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