[Source.](https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/08/14/populist-javier-milei-triumphs-in-argentine-primaries/) > Javier Milei, a right-wing populist and strong supporter of former U.S. President Donald Trump, won a landmark victory in the Argentinian primary elections over the weekend two months before the country’s general election. > Milei and his party La Libertad Avanza (Liberty Advances) won more than 30 percent of the vote, despite the majority of polling initially giving Milei just 20 percent support. He finished above the two mainstream parties – Together for Change and Union for the Homeland – which have dominated Argentinian politics for the past two decades and presided over the country’s rising poverty, depreciating currency, and annual inflation rate of over a staggering 100 percent. > Milei, a Member of the Argentina Chamber of Deputies, ran a virulently anti-establishment campaign, promising voters “an end to the parasitic, corrupt and useless political caste that exists in this country.” Some of his policies included the abolition of the country’s Central Bank and adopt the U.S. dollar, stronger gun rights for the individual, removing sex education from schools, which he suggests is a ploy to destroy the family, and criticizing climate change.