Argentina Economic Crisis Boosts Center-Left in Election

Presidential Candidates Alberto Fernandez for Frente de Todos Party (L) and Nicolas del Caño for FIT Party, walks past Argentinian President and Candidate Mauricio Macri (C) during the first session of the Argentine presidential debate at Universidad Nacional del Litoral on Oct. 13, 2019 in Santa Fe, Argentina. Ricardo Ceppi/Getty Images

BUENOS AIRES—Argentina could take another sharp political turn in Oct. 27’s presidential elections, with center-left Peronist candidate Alberto Fernández favored to oust conservative incumbent Mauricio Macri amid growing frustration over the country’s economic crisis.

Macri was elected president in 2015 as Argentines rejected a successor chosen by former President Cristina Fernández, who’s now running as vice president on the Peronist ticket with Alberto Fernández. The two aren’t related.