Argentina: A jump into the void?

After four years in power, the government leaves office with annual inflation at 160%, and with the top three concerns of Argentines being inflation (66%), crime (53%) and inequality (41%). Corruption (mentioned by 27%) is next in line, as a result of a number of high-profile scandals keeping the topic in the public eye. The outgoing government has presided over one of the poorest records in managing the pandemic, alongside a 200% devaluation of our currency in one year. 

Against this backdrop, the Argentinian people have voted for a profound change.  

The arrival of Javier Milie, a political outsider, without support in the legislative chambers, and widely seen as having an unstable personality, can only be explained by the population's weariness with the "political caste". 

Now the questions arise: will the new president be able to carry out the profound changes he proposes by fighting against a political caste that may refuse to lose its privileges? Or will he once again be a victim of the "political establishment"? The very same that led Argentina to the tremendous situation in which it finds itself at the end of the government of Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner.

Anibal Cantarian
Country Manager
Ipsos in Argentina