The angry vote and providential promises find fertile breeding ground in societies fed up with inflation, insecurity, corruption, where the crisis is already the norm. The WIN Global Survey and consulting firm concluded that Argentina is the Latin American country with the worst mood.

Voices attribute the economic and social crisis, which they say was not expected, to the emotional impact of the pandemic. The 68% who said it was going through a good or fairly good time, compared with the 85% who defined it that way in 2018.