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Argentina: Javier Milei triumphs with La Libertad Avanza in mid-term elections

Milei and La Libertad Avanza won a landslide victory in Argentina's mid-term elections, changing the country's political landscape.

27 October 2025Aggiornato alle ore 9:55

epaselect epa12485085 Il presidente argentino Javier Milei festeggia dopo aver appreso i risultati delle elezioni legislative a Buenos Aires, Argentina, il 26 ottobre 2025 con oltre il 40% dei voti. A titolo di paragone, il partito peronista Fuerza Patria e i suoi alleati hanno ottenuto il 29,4% dei voti, secondo i dati ufficiali. EPA/JUAN IGNACIO RONCORONI

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Milei: "Today the construction of the great Argentina begins"
Trump congratulates Milei: "Overwhelming victory"
Orban: "True Patriot"

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President Javier Milei's party, La Libertad Avanza, won a clear victory in the mid-term legislative elections in Argentina with 40.84% of the vote, according to the first official data. The Peronist coalition Fuerza Patria obtained 24.5% of the vote.

The LLA is also gaining ground in the province of Buenos Aires, the traditional bastion of the progressive Peronists, who only a month ago had knocked out the conservatives' formation.

The low turnout, which stopped at 67.85%, a record figure since the return of democracy in 1983, was one of the elements that worried the ultra-liberal leader, determined to win the numbers needed to accelerate his economic recipe in the Chamber and the Senate. A result that analysts and commentators say leaves no room for doubt - with most of the country's provinces coloured purple (Lla's colour), and the conquest of 64 deputies (against the 31 of the progressives) - that surprises the previous day's polls, which had predicted a head-to-head between Lla, at 36%, and the leftist coalition Fuerza Patria (Fp) at 34%, with a possible tie.

And also celebrating are the United States of Donald Trump, which, faced with strong devaluation pressures, a reserves crisis and a slowdown in economic activity, had come to the aid of Milei with a pledge to support the Argentine peso, by pledging a USD 40 billion aid package, to sustain the executive for the next two years of its mandate.

After his surprising victory in the 2023 presidential election with 56% of the vote, the ultra-liberal arrived at the polls with a level of support that dropped to 38%, a figure that has been interpreted as a growing fatigue among the electorate for his blood-and-guts recipes, which on the one hand managed to contain inflation, which dropped from 200% to 31%, and to ensure fiscal balance, but on the other hand resulted in spending cuts even in sensitive sectors such as education and health.

A decline in popularity also linked to a number of scandals that have touched him more or less closely, such as the case of the peme-coin 'Libra' - a crypto-currency that Milei had promoted on social networks that then collapsed on the stock exchange, ruining hundreds of investors, a scandal involving his sister Karina - smelling of bribes for the purchase of a medical order - and the investigation into the leading candidate of the LLa in Buenos Aires province, Luis Espert, who was forced to withdraw from the race for funding from a drug lord on trial in the US.

At the close of the election campaign, the president had accused left-wing Peronism of wanting to remove the government from power and had raised the spectre of a return of 'Castro-Chavista communism' in the country. But at his last rally in the city of Rosario on Thursday, Milei was already no longer brandishing the iconic chainsaw.

He called on voters to 'not give up' and to 'change Argentina in earnest', promising for the second half of his term 'the reforms the country needs'.

In the absence of the movement's historical leader, Cristina Kirchner - forced under house arrest by a six-year sentence for corruption - the progressives, who still seem to be looking for a charismatic leader, have clung to the figure of the governor of the Buenos Aires province, Axel Kicillof, hoping for an encore of the September result, when they confirmed their dominance over the province of Buenos Aires.

Milei: 'Today the construction of the great Argentina begins'

"Today is a historic day.The people have decided to embrace the ideas of liberty.We are leaving behind a hundred years of decadence.The turning point begins.Today the construction of the great Argentina begins. "Thus President Javier Milei, commenting on his victory in the mid-term elections. "Liberty advances will have 101 deputies instead of 37 and 20 senators instead of six.It will undoubtedly be the most reformist parliament in Argentine history. "Thus President Javier Milei, commenting on his mid-term election victory

Trump congratulates Milei: 'Overwhelming victory'

US President Donald Trump congratulated his ultra-liberal Argentine ally Javier Milei, who won the midterm elections with just over 40% of the vote. "Congratulations to President Javier Milei on his overwhelming victory in Argentina. He is doing an extraordinary job! Our trust in him has been justified by the Argentine people," Trump wrote on his social network Truth.

Orban: "True Patriot"

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban congratulates the 'extraordinary victory' of Argentine President Javier Milei in the mid-term elections. "Hungary and Argentina," Orban exults on X, "share a deep respect for freedom and sovereignty; we look forward to continuing our strong partnership with a true patriot. Viva la Libertad!"