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mo4ch:>Argentina’s Alberto Fernandez & Cristina Kirchner crush president Macri in ‘preliminary elections’ | Mo4ch News

Argentina President Mauricio Macri has conceded his defeat in the primary elections after suffering a massive loss to the center-left nominee Alberto Fernandez and his running mate former President Cristina Kirchner.“We’ve suffered a bad election,” right-wing Macri said Sunday night after preliminary results were announced, giving him 32.36 percent of the vote, while Fernandez obtained 47.22 percent. Center-right Roberto Lavagna came in third with 8.39 percent.The nationwide primary elections, introduced in Argentina in 2011, are held simultaneously for all parties and serve a good indication of how the presidential race would swing when people vote in October 27 general election.Fernandez who served as the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers during Nestor Kirchner’s presidency vowed to create a “new” Argentina. “Argentinians realized we are the change not them,” Fernandez said during his victory speech in Buenos Aires, promising “to end this time of lies and give a new horizon.”Also on…