Argentine authorities say center-left Peronist candidate Alberto Fernández leads the presidential election as frustrated voters appear to spurn conservative incumbent Mauricio Macri's handling of an economic crisis.
Supporters of center-left Peronist presidential candidate Alberto Fernández and running mate, former President Cristina Fernández, celebrate as they wait for election results outside their party's election headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019.
Macri was elected president in 2015 as Argentines rejected a successor chosen by ex-President Cristina Fernández. But the divisive former leader is now seeking a return to high office as vice president on the Peronist ticket with Alberto Fernández. Sunday’s largely peaceful election was dominated by concerns over rising poverty, a sharp depreciation of the currency and one of the world’s highest inflation rates.
“We Argentines deserve a better country, with work, where we can live peacefully, above all,” said Antonella Bruna, 32, as she voted at the medical school of the National University of Rosario, about 180 miles northwest of Buenos Aires. Fernández served as chief of staff from 2003 to 2007 for Cristina Fernández’s predecessor and late husband, Néstor Kirchner. He remained in the position during part of her term as president but left after a conflict with farmers in 2008.
Macri is credited with returning Argentina to international global markets following a break after the 2001 crisis and with helping strike a free trade deal between South America’s Mercosur bloc and the European Union amid global trade tensions and rising protectionism.
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