In reverse for Milei, Peronists win wide victory in the Legislative Election of Buenos Aires

Voters check the electoral registration during provincial legislative elections in La Plata, Province of Buenos Aires, on September 7, 2025. Stringer/AFP The first official results of the Legislative Elections in the province of Buenos Aires point to the victory of Governor Axel Kicillof’s center-left peronism, which is strengthened as the main opposition name and possible candidate for president in 2027. 82%of the ballot boxes, Fuerza Patria reaches 46.9%, while La Libertad Avanza, party of President Javier Milei, has 33.8%. The data were released shortly after 9 pm on Sunday (7). The election in the province of Buenos Aires, the most populous and politically influential of Argentina, is considered a thermometer for the national term of office, scheduled for October. The so -called “Bonaerenses” went to the polls to choose 46 deputies and 23 provincial senators. Former President Cristina Kirchner, who is under house arrest, waved supporters on the balcony of her apartment in Recoleta and celebrated the results on a social network. “See, Milei? Trivia the ‘Never Whatever’, which represents the black and most tragic period in Argentine history, is not free. Laughing the death and pain of his opponents, nor does it point out with his finger and stigmatize people with disabilities, while his sister charges 3% of bribes of their medicines, it is lethal,” Cristina wrote. The governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, visits an electoral section to vote during the legislative elections in the province of Buenos Aires, La Plata, Argentina, September 7, 2025 Reuters/Tomas Cuesta in Milei, Peronists gain widely victory in the Legislative Election of Buenos Aires Argentina president Javier Milei faces increasing pressure caused by suspicions that his sister, Karina, was involved in a corruption scheme. In addition, the country is experiencing market instability. To fulfill his free market agenda and restore investors’ trust in a country famous for his numerous debt defaults, Milei needs to expand his small minority in Congress. His party, La Libertad Avanza, currently holds less than 15% of the chairs. Milei has been strongly supported his presidential vetoes to keep his long-term fiscal surplus, but on Thursday (4), the Argentine Senate first overthrew one of them and maintained a new law that expands the benefits to people with disabilities. A larger block in Congress would give him freedom to block opposition measures aimed at bringing down his reforms more easily as he tries to advance with austerity policies.

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