Far-Right Libertarian Wins Argentina's Presidential Primary

Aug 14, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    45% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    16% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

Sentiments

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  •   Conservative
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"We have a lot of things in common, he said, citing what he called their support for private property, freedom of expression, the free market and the right to self-defense."
Positive
12% Conservative
"Besides his ideas about the currency and the central bank, he has proposed drastically lowering taxes and cutting public spending, including by charging people to use the public health care system; closing or privatizing all state-owned enterprises; and eliminating the health, education and environment ministries."
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-22% Liberal
"He and his ruing mate, a lawyer who has defended the country's past military dictatorship, have suggested they would loosen gun laws, reverse recent policies allowing abortion and even permit the sale of human organs, an example of commerce that Mr. Milei says the government has no business restricting."
Negative
-40% Liberal
"Yet Mr. Milei has proved to be a skilled politician in the internet age, with a trademark scowl and head of unruly hair that have given him a larger-than-life persona and made him an easy subject of internet memes, much like Mr. Trump and Mr. Bolsonaro."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Trump had the Republican Party."
Positive
0% Conservative
"And not unlike supporters of Mr. Trump and Mr. Bolsonaro, Argentines who voted for Mr. Milei said on Sunday that they liked him because he was a political outsider who would shake up a broken system and tell it like it is."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"A far-right libertarian candidate won Argentina's open presidential primary election on Sunday, a surprising showing for a politician who wants to adopt the U.S. dollar as Argentina's official currency and embraces comparisons to Donald Trump."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Mr. Touzon said Mr. Milei would have less institutional support than far-right candidates who were swept into office elsewhere in recent years, including Mr. Trump and former President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil."
Negative
-18% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : "We have a lot of things in common," he said, citing what he called their support for private property, freedom of expression, the free market and the right to self-defense.
39% : Besides his ideas about the currency and the central bank, he has proposed drastically lowering taxes and cutting public spending, including by charging people to use the public health care system; closing or privatizing all state-owned enterprises; and eliminating the health, education and environment ministries.
30% : He and his running mate, a lawyer who has defended the country's past military dictatorship, have suggested they would loosen gun laws, reverse recent policies allowing abortion and even permit the sale of human organs, an example of commerce that Mr. Milei says the government has no business restricting.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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