Buenos Aires (EFE).- President Javier Milei’s party, La Libertad Avanza, won Argentina’s legislative elections Sunday with 39 percent of the vote, according to official results.
With 95.6 percent of ballots counted, La Libertad Avanza secured victories in Argentina’s most populous regions — including Buenos Aires City, Córdoba, Santa Fe and Mendoza — and scored a surprise win in Buenos Aires province, where it had suffered a heavy defeat to the Peronist bloc in September’s provincial elections.
The Peronist coalition Fuerza Patria and its allies placed second with 29.4 percent, while the regional alliance Provincias Unidas finished third with 5.8 percent.
With the results, Milei’s government is on track to control roughly one-third of the lower house — a target the administration had set to advance its reform agenda and prevent opposition lawmakers from overturning presidential decrees.
In the Senate, La Libertad Avanza won in six of the eight provinces renewing seats, though it still falls short of the one-third threshold needed to block opposition-led legislation or veto reforms that threaten its austerity program.
Voter turnout stood at 67.9 percent, the lowest in a national election since Argentina’s return to democracy in 1983, according to the National Electoral Chamber. EFE
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