By Facundo Iglesia and Juan Décima

All five candidates for the Argentine presidency have already voted. The first to vote early Sunday morning was left-wing candidate Myriam Bregman (Frente de Izquierda y los Trabajadores – Unidad) while Patricia Bullrich (Juntos por el Cambio, JxC) was the last. Schiaretti (Hacemos por Nuestro País), Sergio Massa (Unión por la Patria, UxP) and Javier Milei (La Libertad Avanza, LLA) all voted around lunch time. 

This is what they said after they voted.

Javier Milei

Far-right libertarian Javier Milei finished voting in a school in Almagro a little after 1 p.m. Surrounded by media, he was not able to offer a proper press conference and only managed to answer a few questions. When asked if he saw potential governability problems, he said “not at all.” 

“We are positioned to give the best government ever,” he stated, adding that “putting Argentina back on its feet” would be the goal of his potential administration. Milei was the most voted candidate in the August primaries, where he got 29.9% of the vote.

Patricia Bullrich

Patricia Bullrich also cast her vote shortly after 1 p.m. in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo. She said that she pictured herself “celebrating” once the results were announced. Bullrich ended second in the PASO with 28% of the vote, beating out JxC rival, BA City mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta. Last week, she announced that Larreta would be her chief of staff if she wins the election.

“I am going to be president”, she said in a polling station located inside the Argentine Rural Society. “My goal is not only to participate in the [potential] runoff, but also to win it.”

She added that JxC received a “lot of complaints” about missing ballots in Buenos Aires province. “I received complaints of missing ballots; you have to have an oiled mechanism to replace them as soon as possible.”

Sergio Massa

Sergio Massa voted in a school in Tigre, Buenos Aires province, after standing in line for close to 40 minutes. “This is a very important day in Argentina,” he said in a press conference after voting.

Massa also spoke about the “consolidation of forty years of democracy,” as the country’s last military dictatorship ended in 1983. “Whoever governs starting December 10 will have to solve countless problems,” the Economy Minister said.

The UxP candidate got 27.3% of the vote in the primaries, beating his coalition rival Juan Grabois.

Juan Schiaretti

Córdoba governor Juan Schiaretti voted at 11 a.m. “Today, we will define what kind of Argentina we will have in the future,” he said after voting. Schiaretti, who is a Peronist, but does not support Kirchnerism, got 3.7% of the vote in the primaries.

He also said that the elections will define if Argentina will continue down a road that is “not normal” or if it follows a path of “production and work,” stressing that he is the only candidate who does not come from the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area.

Myriam Bregman

Left-wing candidate Myriam Bregman voted a little after 8:30 a.m. in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Congreso. “There is another way out of the crisis, not everything is austerity measures or attacking workers,” she said to the press. Bregman got 2.6% in August’s primaries.