11:40 p.m
30% of the votes have already been counted
Although there is no official data on the voting process, the counting is going very quickly. The number is now at 30%.
If this pace is maintained, it is expected that by 9:00 p.m. Argentine time (1:00 a.m. Spanish time) the goal of providing the first official data with a count of more than 70% will be easily achieved.
23:34
Chants in the Milei headquarters: “The caste is afraid!”
Milei’s supporters are stationed outside the doors of the Hotel Libertador and Córdoba Avenue in Buenos Aires, where the Libertarian candidate’s headquarters are located, is even expected to be closed to traffic.
The calls didn’t take long to arrive, with the now classic “The caste is afraid” or calls against Sergio Massa, Milei’s opponent and official candidate.
Photo: Portal
23:27
Darth Vader also voted
There were all kinds of characters on election day. For example, one of the voters was dressed as the Dark Lord of the most famous Sith: Darth Vader. He even had his stormtrooper escort and everything.
23:04
More optimism at Milei headquarters
Although neither candidate wants to ring the bell, there is more optimism in Javier Milei’s bunker. In any case, a very close result can be expected.
22:42
“The most important elections in 40 years of democracy,” said Massa’s party
Juliana Di Tullio and Matías Lammens, spokespersons for the Union for the Homeland party of Sergio Massa, carefully analyzed the election day and, without being triumphalist or pessimistic, emphasized that these elections are the “most important in 40 years” of democracy.
22:39
Final Participation Data: 76%
Secretary General of the Office of the President, Julio Vitobello, confirmed that voter turnout was 76% when schools were closed.
22:27
The Pink House is waiting for a tenant
Although the move won’t take effect until December 10, Argentina is waiting to see who will be the new tenant of its presidential palace, the Casa Rosada.
The disruptive and ultra-conservative libertarian Javier Milei or the persistent Peronist Sergio Massa. The equality of both candidates is extreme.
22:16
The first results will be announced from 1 a.m. (Spanish time).
According to Clarín, no official data on the results at polling stations in Argentina will be known until 9:00 p.m. Argentine time or 1:00 a.m. in Spain.
By then, 70% of the votes will have been counted. So if the difference is big enough, you can say who will be president of Argentina.
10:10 p.m
In Argentina, polling stations close due to controversy
That’s all: the polling stations in Argentina have closed with some controversy: both Massa and Milei have asked their representatives to keep control of the counting.
9:26 p.m
Milei wins Spain with 69% of the vote and 31% for Massa
Javier Milei’s victory among Argentines in Spain was undeniable: La Libertad Avanza received 7,765 votes to 3,541 for the Unión por la Patria. Out of a total of 11,306 voters, Milei won with 69% and Massa with 31%.
8:43 p.m
Attendance at 4:00 p.m. (Argentina time): 62%
The participation dates remain consistent and are very similar to the first round. The National Electoral Commission has reported that 62% of voters have already voted.
20:42
First results in Europe: Milei is ahead
Although the data is still very preliminary, “Clarín” is already pointing to initial results. In Italy, victory went to Milei with 58.66% of the 542 registered votes. In Austria, La Libertad Avanza also won, with 137 votes to 94 for the Kirschnerist Massa.
In Spain, results are currently available from the Argentine consulate in Vigo, where Milei received 232 to 103 from the Union for the homeland of Massa.
In France they choose Massa. In Paris, his option won by almost 18 points, with 56% of the vote and 38.7% for the libertarian option. In Sweden, the only table drawn up in Stockholm cast 128 votes for Massa and 84 for Milei.
8:10 p.m
When will the results be announced?
Election day began at 12:00 a.m. Spanish time and lasts until 10:00 p.m. The first results will be announced around 2 a.m. and around 3 or 4 a.m. it will be possible to know who will be in control of Argentina in the coming years.
8:03 p.m
Milei’s party demands that the ballot papers from the first round be considered valid
Mess with the ballots. Faced with the complaints raised by representatives of Javier Milei’s party, La Libertad Avanza, regarding the appearance of ballot papers from other elections, the party has asked the National Electoral Authority of Buenos Aires to authorize the counting of votes cast with ballot papers in the first round.
19:14
The governor of Mendoza decided his vote “in a dark room”
Rodolfo Suárez, governor of Mendoza and member of the Radical Civic Union (which was with the Macristas in the previous elections and can therefore be considered close to Mileis) did not reveal his vote, which he decided “in a dark room”. according to what he told the media.
This type of voting is common in these elections. Many Argentines are torn between the Peronist-Kirschnerist bet and a complete break with the system that Milei represents.
7:01 p.m
Insanity the moment Milei voted
The images captured by the camera of the newspaper La Nación perfectly summarize what the moment of euphoria was like when Javier Milei went to the polling station to vote. The security services had to work hard to contain the crowds.
18:43
Spain is the second largest country with the most Argentine voters abroad
Nearly 436,000 Argentines are eligible to vote abroad, and after the United States, Spain has the most voters outside the country. with 85,388where a large proportion of those registered are resident in Barcelona (47,071) and Madrid with 34,992 eligible voters.
6:39 p.m
Cristina Fernández avoids giving advice
The Vice President of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirschner, declined this Sunday the opportunity given to her by the press to give “some advice” to the next president of the country, who will emerge from the runoff between the ruling party Sergio Massa and the opposition Javier Milei. “No one can claim the power to give advice,” said the woman, who was also president between 2007 and 2015.
6:19 p.m
Milei repeats the accusation of ballot theft
Javier Milei reposted (retweeted) an Argentinian X user who claimed he received “a lot of messages about ballot theft.”
“Prosecutors, heroes of this day, do not relax.” “In these last 4 hours, the Peronist apparatus begins to move more strongly,” warns this user, to whom Milei gave a speaker.
6:16 p.m
45% of Argentina’s census has already voted
The turnout data for the elections in Argentina at 2:00 p.m., the second to be published, maintain the dynamics of the previous one at 12:00: 45%. In October, at this point, it was 44.4%.
18:12
Mauricio Macri, ironic after the vote: “There were only a few ballot papers left for Milei”
The President of Argentina between 2015 and 2019 has committed himself to Javier Milei both during the election campaign and now on the day of the final vote. “Let no one give up, let everyone express their vocation to hope, to change and to the future in the election,” he declared, warning that there were “only a few tickets left for Milei” at his polling station.
Photo: AFP
6:08 p.m
Victoria Villarruel, Milei’s vice presidential candidate, criticizes the protests on election day
Opponents of La Libertad Avanza have held protests and hung posters near the toddlers’ kindergarten in Buenos Aires where they voted, criticizing those most violent.
«I see the posters as part of democracy. It is the first time that the daughter of a Malvinas veteran has become vice president. I don’t know what can bother them if they have children of terrorists in government positions. Those who interfere with freedom of expression are the violent ones,” he said in this context.
Photo: AFP
6:01 p.m
Massa’s wife accuses the members of Milei’s party of stoking doubts about the democratic process
Malena Galmarini, Sergio Massa’s wife, has called for calm after supporters of Sergio Milei’s La Libertad Avanza party reported that their ballot papers were being torn up. “Even if the ballots are torn, they are valid, they are neither invalid nor have they been appealed, it is clear what the mind of the voter is,” he said, accusing the libertarians of sowing doubt in the event of defeat.
5:33 p.m
The football is also right: Chiqui Tapia, “with pride and emotion” and dressed as an urn
Chiqui Tapia, president of the Argentine Football Association, also came to cast his vote. He did it “in an urn costume” and with pride and emotion, as he confessed.
17:30
Milei agreed: “We have done a tremendous job, despite the campaign of fear and the dirty campaign they did to us.”
Javier Milei, as expected, did not bite his tongue as he addressed the media after casting his vote.
The “La Libertad Avanza” candidate was confident in his possibilities: “We have done an enormous job despite the campaign of fear and all the dirty campaign they have done to us.” We are very calm, we have done our best, now let’s let the polls do the talking. Let’s hope that tomorrow there will be more hope and not so much continuity of decline.
17:24
The voice of Alberto Fernández
Kirschnerist Alberto Fernández says goodbye to the Casa Rosada, after four years in which he hopes that one of his ministers, Sergio Massa, will continue his legacy.
“It’s another day when Argentines vote and decide our future.” “I wish it will be a happy day for Argentines,” he said, without giving an obvious headline.
5:19 p.m
Similar attendance numbers at 12 p.m. in Argentina
At noon the turnout was very similar to the first round, in which Massa and Mieli were the only candidates. At the same time in October it was 29.6%; now 30%.
5:07 p.m
Sergio Massa after the vote: “We are starting a new stage”
After casting his vote, Sergio Massa declared that a new stage was opening in Argentina. “It is an election that defines what country we will have in the next four years. Today we begin a new stage in Argentina and this stage also requires good will, intelligence and capacity; the dialogue and consensus necessary for our country to pursue a much more virtuous path.”
16:48
The candidates and the outgoing president have already voted
First Sergio Massa in Tigre and then Javier Milei at the National Technical University in the Almagro district of Buenos Aires. Just a few minutes apart, the two candidates to succeed Alberto Fernández have already cast their votes in the Casa Rosada.
The photo, provided by the Argentine Presidency, shows the outgoing president.
16:37
This is how the new president is elected in Argentina
The election date on October 22nd included the presentation of scenarios and, above all, calculations that all forecasts predicted a second round of elections. The omens came true. Because to win in the first round of the Argentine presidential elections you have to get 45% of the votes, that is, 15,450,000 votes.
16:34
Follow the presidential elections in Argentina live
Sergio Massa and Javier Milei have been playing for the presidency of Argentina since the afternoon, in which Peronist and populist bets are being debated.