Javier Milei has lost his lucky star. His redeeming power, emanating from the forces of heaven, as he often likes to say, was mercilessly crushed at the September 7 election in Buenos Aires province by Kirchnerist Peronism, the very embodiment of all possible evils in Milei's view. The unexpected and resounding result in favor of the left a difference of almost 14 points, a million votes exposed the king.
According to the official data, the Peronist's center-left candidate Axel Kicillof won 46.8% of the vote across the province, while the candidate for Milei's La Libertad Avanza (LLA) party took 33.8%, with 82.2% of the votes counted. The margin between the Peronist party and Milei's party was much higher than what was predicted in pre-election polls. Milei accepted his party's "clear defeat" and admitted to unspecified "mistakes" which he vowed to "correct."