# Milei wins the 2023 presidential runoff Date: 2023 ## The fact On 19 November 2023 [Javier Milei](/people/javier-milei) defeated [Sergio Massa](/people/sergio-massa) in Argentina’s presidential runoff. ## Context Villarruel was the running mate. Neighbouring 10 December oath is the child. 10 December 2023 oath is the child. Devaluation 13 December is a later shock. The President of Argentina heads the federal executive, issues decrees of necessity and urgency subject to congressional review, and appoints the cabinet. He does not write INDEC prints, an IMF board decision, a [US Treasury](/organizations/us-treasury) backstop, or a Central Bank balance sheet by himself. Congress, governors, the BCRA, and coalition deputies share specific files. Dollarisation announced is not dollarisation completed. ## Evidence and sources Ministry of the Interior of Argentina carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed certified rotation after a polarised runoff is a dated peaceful-contest instrument. ## What is established and what is not Established: 19 November 2023 runoff victory, independently reported and certified. Not established: that dollarisation was thereby enacted, or a unique later inflation coefficient from that Sunday. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. The electoral authority certified. Massa lost. He won.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Milei wins the 2023 presidential runoff, not a later speech about Milei wins the 2023 presidential runoff. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Milei wins the 2023 presidential runoff on 2023-11-19 is not a licence to treat every later Ministry of the Interior of Argentina communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Milei wins the 2023 presidential runoff into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Voters chose. The electoral authority certified. Massa lost. He won. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Javier Milei: https://factrail.ai/people/javier-milei ## Drivers - Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience ## Sources - https://apnews.com/article/argentina-election-president-milei-massa-a4811c5229d35551f8dbf7056d87aae6 - https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/milei-wins-argentina-presidential-election-2023-11-19/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ar-election-2023