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Prices soar in Argentina after Milei’s currency devaluation (english.elpais.com)

submitted 11 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] quindraco@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Didn't he win the vote? Trump lost the vote. He won the election because the American system is designed to sometimes hand victory to the loser - Trump was the 5th or 6th example to date.

[–] ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

He was voted on by 14.5 million votes, which was 56% of the votes, but it is also out of a population of 45 million, and he only got 30% in the first round of votes. They have a completely different voting system to the US, so they had a second round of runoffs.

The point is, no most people in Argentina did not vote for him, but many did not vote at all.