Argentina´s Macri bashed as voters back predecessor´s ticket
(WorldNews Argentina)

Buenos Aires, Argentina - Argentine stocks and currency plummeted on Monday after Argentine President Mauricio Macri was snubbed by voters who appeared to hand a resounding primary victory to a populist ticket with his predecessor, Cristina Fernández. The preliminary results from Sunday´s voting suggest the conservative Macri will face an uphill battle going into general elections in October and gives the populists who governed Argentina for most of the past two decades a strong chance of returning to power. A woman walks past a currency exchange board in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Aug. 12, 2019. (Photo: Natacha Pisarenko, AP) The result stunned financial markets. About a third of the...