Argentina's anti-establishment candidate Milei engages IMF in economic talks after shock primary win

Argentina’s right-wing populist presidential candidate Javier Milei has met with International Monetary Fund officials to explain his economic proposals for the country, days after he became the surprise front-runner for the October election

Argentina’s right-wing populist presidential candidate Javier Milei met Friday with International Monetary Fund officials to explain his economic proposals for the country, days after he became the surprise front-runner for the October election.

“We are not going to default on either the IMF nor sovereign debt,” Milei told the IMF officials, according to a message posted on social media by Darío Epstein, one of the candidate’s key economic advisers. Milei, 52, gained a rockstar-like following by raging against the “political caste” on television. He received 30% of the votes in the country’s national primaries on Sunday, as compared with 28% for the main opposition bloc and 27% for the current ruling coalition.

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