Argentina Turns to the Right

... that has been around for a little over a decade, emerged victorious with 51.4 per cent of the votes, beating out the Peronist candidate Daniel Scioli, who received 48.6 per cent of the votes. Macri’s victory marks the end of 12 years of “Kirchnerism”, the name given to the political philosophy developed under the government of Néstor Kirchner, who died in 2010, and his wife Cristina Fernández. It was a centre-left version of the traditional and powerful Justicialist ...