It is difficult to overstate the significance of the occasion. According to Héctor Schamis, a political scientist at Georgetown University, if a similar political change had occurred in France or Brazil, the country’s citizens would be celebrating the birth of a new republic.
周日大选中，阿根廷选民打破了这一模式：近一个世纪以来第一次，总统不是庇隆主义者、不是激进份子，也不是将军。此次选举的意义怎么强调都不为过。按照乔治城大学政治学家赫克托·斯卡米斯的说法，如果类似的政治变化发生在法国或巴西，那里的民众将会庆祝一个全新共和国的诞生。