Argentines began voting on Sunday in a national election where a far-right libertarian leads the race, a shift in the political landscape due to fallout from the country's worst economic crisis in two decades. The ballot is likely to roil financial markets, set a new political and social path for the nation and impact its ties with trade partners including China and Brazil. Argentina is a major grains exporter with huge reserves of lithium and shale gas. Lerato Mbele speaks to Professor Laurence Whitehead, a Senior Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College at Oxford University about the elections and look at what consequences, if any, could this have for the country’s economy and for politics.

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