Mr Milei’s rival, economy minister Sergio Massa, called him to concede.

Former US President Donald Trump congratulated Mr Milei on his victory, saying he would “Make Argentina Great Again!”.

The election comes at a difficult time for Argentina with rising inflation and an economy in crisis on peoples’ minds.

Mr Milei’s proposals, which included detonating the central bank, won support with voters desperate for change…

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    Fake populist with no real policy and only empty slogans and memes promises to fix the economy. We’ve never seen this before.

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      Do you think complete Dolarization of the economy and closing the central bank is not a policy? (Just to name the more relevant)

      Do you think the other candidate, Sergio Massa (current minister of economy) had a real economic policy?

      I’m asking for real here.

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      It’ll go like shit, the way it always does when people vote right-wing.

      But for a bit of fun, be sure to ask any right-wing reactionaries what conservative leader actually made their country a better place – they all have an answer they want to give, but they know they can’t say it out loud.

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      Hey! That’s not fair!!

      He wants to make selling human organs legal. That’s…a policy.

      On social issues, he wants to loosen gun laws, abolish abortion - which was legalised in Argentina in 2020 - and allow the sale and purchase of human organs.