Argentina President Milei suffers crushing defeat in Buenos Aires provincial election [View all]

By ISABEL DEBRE
Updated 1:04 AM CDT, September 8, 2025

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine President Javier Milei suffered a sweeping setback on Sunday in a Buenos Aires provincial election widely viewed as a political test for his libertarian party and a barometer for how it will perform in crucial congressional midterms next month.

Milei’s recently formed La Libertad Avanza party captured just 34% of the vote in Argentina’s biggest province, losing by a landslide to the left-leaning Peronist opposition, which secured 47% with the majority of ballots counted late Sunday.

Milei conceded that his right-wing party’s crushing 13-point loss to his populist rivals represented “a clear defeat.”

“We suffered a setback, and we must accept it responsibly,” Milei told grim-faced supporters at the party headquarters, his tone reflective, even chastened.

“If we’ve made political mistakes, we’re going to internalize them, we’re going to process them, we’re going to modify our actions,” he said.

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Milei was invited to Trump's inaugural event, of course.















Milei dragged a bogus chainsaw around through his campaign, trying to illustrate his intention to hack the bejesus out of Argentina's social spending, always a fascist pleaser.