In the national elections to the Chamber of Deputies, Mileia's party, Freedom Progress (LLA), obtained almost 41 percent. votes, while its main opponent, the opposition coalition Power of the Fatherland (FP), representing the left-wing Peronist movement, won less than 25 percent.
The daily “La Nacion” assessed these results as a “convincing victory” of the ruling party, and the Infobae portal called them a “categorical triumph” of the government. According to the “Clarin” daily, LLA's advantage is greater than expected.
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What reforms does Javier Milei plan to introduce?
Commentators emphasize that strengthening representation in Congress will make it easier for Milei to introduce wide-ranging reforms, supported rhetorically and financially by the administration of US President Donald Trump. Milei is described as one of Trump's greatest ideological allies in Latin America.
In the country's capital, Buenos Aires, the LLA candidate defeated his FP rival by 20 percentage points. Preliminary results also indicate a slight victory for the LLA in the province of Buenos Aires, the most populous in the country.
The Argentine president does not want a welfare state
Milei, in power since December 2023, is pursuing a policy of “chainsaw cuts” in public spending to pull the country out of the economic crisis that has led to triple-digit inflation annually. The president seeks to dismantle the welfare state built by Peronists, who have dominated the country's politics for decades.
Sunday's midterm elections elected 127 deputies, or almost half of the lower house of the Argentine Congress, and 24 senators, or one third of the upper house. According to “Clarin's” calculations, LLA won 64 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 12 in the Senate on Sunday.
Turnout in the elections was less than 68%. and was the lowest since the restoration of democracy in Argentina in 1983, TN television reported. More than 12 million eligible voters did not go to the polls, even though it is formally obligatory in Argentina. The congressmen elected on Sunday will begin their terms on December 10.
