"At his party headquarters in the capital, Buenos Aires, Milei burst onstage and sang a few lines of the death-metal tune that has become his anthem in a raspy baritone: "I am the king of a lost world!" He called the results a "turning point" for the country and vowed to charge ahead with his reform agenda. "Today we reached a turning point, today begins the construction of a great Argentina," he told supporters at a victory party. "The Argentine people left decadence behind and opted for progress," Milei said, thanking "all those who supported the ideas of freedom to make Argentina great again.""
"President Javier Milei's party, La Libertad Avanza, has won more than 40% of the votes cast for Argentina's Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of congress. That's according to tallies in local media using figures from electoral authorities, based on 97% of votes counted. At 67.9%, turnout was the lowest in a national election in over 40 years. La Libertad Avanza also took six of the eight provinces that voted for the Senate on Sunday."
"Milei said his party went from holding just 37 seats to more than 101 in the 257-seat Chamber of Deputies after Sunday's vote. In the 72-seat Senate, he said La Libertad Avanza picked up 14 more seats to end up with 20 senators. "God bless Argentina," Milei's spokesperson Manuel Adorni wrote as a reaction on X. The center-left Peronist opposition, which had been riding high after winning provincial elections in Buenos Aires in September, trailed with just over 31%, the almost-complete results showed."
President Javier Milei's party La Libertad Avanza won more than 40% of votes for the Chamber of Deputies with 97% of ballots counted. Voter turnout was 67.9%, the lowest in a national election in over 40 years. La Libertad Avanza captured six of eight provinces voting for the Senate. Half of Chamber seats and one-third of Senate seats were contested in the midterms; executive offices were not on the ballot. Milei declared the results a turning point and vowed to pursue reforms, celebrating at a victory party. The center-left Peronist opposition trailed with just over 31%.
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