Where do Argentina's candidates stand on the Political Compass? [View all]

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According to the Political Compass test, PRO/'Let's Change' nominee Mauricio Macri is the candidate of the economic right.

Buenos Aires Herald staff writer Federico Poore, applied the test to each of the six presidential candidates based on his or her stated positions (or approximate ones where no exact stand has been taken) to determine whether each is more socially liberal or authoritarian, and to left or right economically. The test, as conducted by Poore found that the PRO/'Let's Change' candidate, Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri, proved to be the one that comes closest to the economic right.

The Political Compass test is often used in political science to sort or classify ideologies generally based on two axes. One qualifying between authoritarianism and freedom, the axis that measures social views based on personal freedoms. While the other expresses the ideological distance in terms of left and right, as pertains to economic policy.

This was the result:
_________________AUTHORITARIAN_________________
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|***********************|***********************|
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|***********************|***********************|
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|****************Massa**|**********************|
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|***********Rodríguez Saá|**********************|
|************Scioli*******|**********************|
|_______________________|_______________________|
|***********************|**********Macri********|
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|***********************|***********************|
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|***********************|***********************|
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|********Stolbizer********|**********************|
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|Del Caño****************|**********************|
|_____________________LIBERAL___________________|
LEFT***************************************RIGHT

At: http://www.politicargentina.com/notas/201510/8969-segun-test-macri-es-el-candidato-de-la-derecha-economica.html
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It should be noted that Macri has deliberately moderated his campaign rhetoric on a number of issues, and this most likely skewed Poore's results.

In practice, however, his advisers are in favor of everything from ending most export taxes, sharply devaluing the peso (sudden drops in the peso automatically benefit the wealthy, while wrecking the rest of the economy), deregulating finance (Argentina collapsed twice, in '81 and '01, on account of that already), ending most welfare benefits, privatizing social security (while kicking millions of seniors out), privatizing all renationalized firms (the ones that had been run into the ground by profiteers in the late '90s), caving to vulture fund demands for a 1600% payout (Paul Singer is a leading campaign contributor to Macri's PRO), and while they're at it pardoning all 1,000-odd Dirty War criminals convicted or currently on trial.

The "social liberal" rating is equally dubious: Macri is staunchly pro-life and anti-gay rights; has a history of using the Metropolitan Police to wiretap opponents and violently quash protests (even of disabled people); and as mayor has starved public schools, cultural centers, and hospitals of funds while doting on private and religious - particularly Opus Dei-owned - institutions.