Mauricio Macri celebrates the results and his victory as new President of Argentina, on his bunker at the national elections day. Javier Gallardo. Demotix. All rights reserved
Mauricio Macri, of the centre right party operating with the acronym PRO, for Republican Promise, is now the president elect of Argentina, after winning the runoff election as candidate for the Cambiemos (Let’s Change) political alliance, a coalition integrating the PRO, the Coalición Cívica ARI and the Unión Cívica Radical . He will be sworn in on 10th December.
In his acceptance speech, Macri said that he had learnt much whilst campaigning. He already signalled his swift learning curve when he unveiled the first statute of Perón in Buenos Aires city, the rich province Macri governed for 8 years, making a virtue of favouring the well off. He puzzled most anti-Peronists stating below Perón’s statue that “I owe a lot to Perón” and that none of the recent social reforms will be rolled back. If this is the case, the defunct and wily old general will have chalked up an unexpected victory, now that even anti-Peronists seem to favour the Peronist policies.
