LOOK: Could the gasoline crisis have any effect on the Argentine second round of elections?
The process, full of surprises since the primaries held in August, promises to maintain uncertainty until the last minute. Shortly after Argentines go to the polls, a survey by the Latin American Strategic Center for Geopolitics (CELAG) gives Massa the advantage by 1.4 points over Milei.
However, another study carried out by CB Consultora de Opinión Pública shows that the economist surpasses the current minister by up to 3 points.
Both polls have been cautious in highlighting, however, that the race could be defined by that percentage of the electorate that has not yet opted for either of the two candidates.
After obtaining the general majority of votes in the PASO, Milei entered the first round of October as a favorite; However, the representative of the ruling party surprised by obtaining 36.6% of the votes and leaving his opponent with 30% of them.
Since then, Milei has tried to moderate his speech and sought to find support in the center and the right, which he criticized during the first months of the campaign.
Massa, for his part, has opted to promise that he will avoid a shock that is too strong for the population in the long road that Argentines will have to take to recover from inflation that exceeds 100% annually.
The libertarian, however, has not lost hope and is confident that he will be able to repeat what Mauricio Macri did in 2015, when he won the presidency despite having lost in the first round against the Peronist Daniel Scioli.
That of Macri and Scioli was, furthermore, the only presidential second round that Argentines have experienced during the last twenty years.
In the following graph created by Trade Find out what the results of the Argentine presidential elections were from 2003 to date.
