Candidates endorsed by Argentine President Javier Milei appear first in the electoral race of the legislative elections of the city of Buenos Aires.
With over 99% of the ballot boxes, Milei’s list of candidates, led by his spokesman Manuel Adorni, appeared first on Sunday (18) to the local legislature, with 30.1% of the votes, according to the official results.
“Today is a point of inflection for the ideas of freedom,” said Milei, celebrating the result on the stage alongside members of his office.
Leandro Santoro, who was the favorite in much of the research and is an ally of the peronist movement of former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, appeared in second place, with 27.4% of the votes.
Third, with 15.9%, was the list led by Silvia Lospenato, Pro Party candidate, former ally of Milei who now disputes with him the leadership of the center-right field.
This Sunday’s election, which renewed half of the 60 chairs of the Argentine capital legislature, was seen as the first important electoral test for Milei, who took over the presidency at the end of 2023.
“It was not simply a local election,” Adorni said on stage. “It was an election between two models… the political caste model, the privileged model, and the model of freedom. And today, freedom has won – once again.”
Milei’s administration sought to present the local election as a referendum on the economic results of its national government, highlighting the fall of inflation and the first budget surplus of Argentina in 14 years, according to Mariel Fornoni, political analyst at Management & Fit consultancy.
“This is the main asset of the government,” said Fornoni.
The result in Buenos Aires is considered an important step and a relevant indicative for national legislative elections in October.
This content was originally published in Milei obtains historic victory in Buenos Aires and runs over Macrism on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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