Meet Argentina's New President

 Mauricio Macri has won Argentina’s presidential election thus bringing to an end 12 years of leftist rulle.


Macri who ran on a promised of a marvellous new era for the country won the run-off vote on Sunday.
“This is a historic day, a change of era which is going to be marvellous,” Macri told cheering supporters after ruling party candidate Daniel Scioli conceded defeat.
Argentina’s election body said Macri had 53 percent of votes and Scioli had 47 percent with returns in from three-quarters of polling stations.
Macri’s win ends a political era dominated by Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her late-husband Nestor Kirchner.

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