Argentina’s President Javier Milei has led his party to a landslide victory in midterm elections, after defining the first two years of his presidency with radical spending cuts and free-market reforms.

 

 

His party, La Libertad Avanza, won nearly 41 per cent of the vote, taking 13 of 24 Senate seats and 64 of the 127 lower-house seats that were contested. Speaking to supporters in Buenos Aires, Javier Milei declared that the Argentines showed that they don’t want to return to the model of failure.

 

 

Before these elections his party had just seven Senate seats and 37 seats in the lower house. U.S. president Donald Trump in a social media post congratulated President Javier Milei on his victory.