Argentina's Milei scores big in provinces, including Kirchner stronghold
BUENOS AIRES, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Argentina's shock primary election leader Javier Milei, a radical libertarian economist, scored the largest share of the national vote with big wins in the provinces, breaking in some places decades of Peronist party domination.
Milei took 30% of the national vote, ahead of the main conservative opposition bloc Together for Change on 28% and the ruling center-left Peronist coalition on 27%. He won in 16 of the country's 24 regions, clicking with voters angry at 116% inflation and a painful cost of living crisis.