With 98.87% of the vote counted, the former chief executive of the Boca Juniors football club was on 51.44%, nearly three points ahead of his rival Daniel Scioli of the Peronist Victory Front who was on 48.56%.
Todd Monaghan, who calls himself a spiritual surrealist, was dancing by the stage, among a sea of junior executives and young women in sky-high heels.
A number of junior executives at the bank have been prosecuted over the massive tax scam but so far no senior executives have been held accountable.
But the studio experience turns out to be painful, defined by committees of junior executives and marketing consultants forcing their will on the helpless novice.
"They have not exceeded our expectations," Christine Munnelly, the senior executive in charge of juniors merchandise for Macy's East, said.
Blacksmith Sunil Thakur had never felt as important in his life as he did on Nov. 4, when the district police chief, an executive magistrate and a posse of junior officials visited his makeshift roadside furnace.
At Amali restaurant in New York City, it goes back to its South American roots in the hands of executive chef Nilton "Junior" Borges of Brazil.
Seventy-three percent of junior women executives said self-promotion was important to getting ahead, but only 50percentt of women in senior positions agreed.
In 2013 voters in Switzerland rejected a proposal to limit executives' pay to 12 times that of junior employees.
And for all the talk about taxpayer-financed bonuses, a lot of junior and midlevel executives have been told that they shouldn't expect anything but their salaries this year.
Since this is only an interim report, we won't find out for a while yet but, in the meantime, note one of the arguments Mr Hutton puts forward for a cap on the pay of public sector executives as a multiple of that of junior staff.
