Macri Defeats Kirchnerismo in Historic Runoff Election in Argentina
Nov 23, 2015 05:20 PM EST
Argentina danced and sung Sunday evening and woke up to a new political reality on Monday. Kirchenerismo is gone and Mauricio Macri, the center-right politician is the new president-elect of Argentina.
He is the first president-elect in Argentina to not have a political ideology called Peronism or Radicalism. The two most dominant political movements of the 20th century in Argentina, since the country returned to democratic rule in 1983, according to many political scientists.