Less than a week before the second round of the presidential election in Argentina, the current center-left Minister of the Economy Sergio Massa and the ultraliberal and anti-system candidate Javier Milei are neck and neck in the polls. Sunday’s vote will largely take place in the province of Buenos Aires, which accounts for 37% of the country’s population. Informal employment, poverty, inflation, insecurity: the problems which monopolize public debate are more exacerbated there than elsewhere, and voters are often resigned. Our correspondent went to meet the inhabitants of the “conurbano”, the peri-urban ring of Buenos Aires in the municipality of Florencio Varela.
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Argentina: the province of Buenos Aires, mother of all electoral battles
