Javier Milei (C-R) greets supporters as they celebrate outside the ruling party’s La Libertad Avanza headquarters after the results of the national midterm legislative election in Buenos Aires on October 26, 2025.
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Javier Milei called the midterm elections a “turning point” for the country.
Argentine President Javier Milei hailed his party’s runaway victory in elections on Sunday, October 26 as a “turning point,” vowing to charge ahead with his agenda of shrinking the state and deregulating the economy.
Milei’s La Libertad Avanza (LLA) party rebounded from a series of setbacks to win 40.7% of the votes cast for members of Congress, far outpacing the opposition.
The 55-year-old president told supporters at a victory party in Buenos Aires
Today we reached a turning point. Today begins the construction of a great Argentina.
Milei promised to continue on the reform path with what he predicted would be “the most reformist Congress in Argentina’s history.”
U.S. president Donald Trump, a close ally, congratulated Milei, whom he said “had a lot of help from us.” Hungarian conservative prime minister Viktor Orbán also sent his congratulations to the Argentine president, calling him “a true patriot.“
Milei said LLA had more than tripled its seat count, winning 101 seats in the lower house Chamber of Deputies, up from 37, and 20 seats in the Senate, up from six.
The center-left Peronist movement, in power for much of Argentina’s post-war history, trailed in second place with 31.7%.
The run-up to the vote was marked by a run on the national currency, the peso, which forced Milei to seek a bailout from Trump.
Former TV pundit Milei has cut tens of thousands of public sector jobs, frozen public works, cut spending on health, education, and pensions and led a major deregulation drive since taking office in December 2023.
