Buenos Aires, Argentina – Firefighting President Javier Milei’s libertad Avanza won the election on Sunday in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. Miley hopes to bring his party’s success to the midterm elections this October.
Half of the city’s 60 legislative seats are under competition, with 11 winning 11 of them, including Milei’s presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni who received 30.13% of the vote.
His first major political matches have all been huge in his first major political matches since taking office in December 2023, as well as a turnaround with the Central Right-wing Republican Party, which has ruled the capital for the past 20 years.
After Adorni, Leandro Santoro, a member of the Argentina House of Commons and a member of Uniónporla Patria, won 27.35% of his party, his party won 10 seats, while Silvia Lospennato (also a member of the House of Commons and a professional party candidate, won 15.92% of the championship in the third place, with only 15.92% of the people winning five seats and only 5 seats.
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, former mayor of Buenos Aires, broke with professional leadership in March (after party distance in 2024), and he finished fourth with 8.08% of the vote and won three seats. The workers’ left-wing front won the 3.16% championship and won a seat. More than a dozen other colorful candidates failed to meet the 3% threshold required for legislative representation.
Local interest in elections is lukewarm, with a voting turnout rate of 13% lower than the last election in 2021. This is partly attributed to Pro’s decision to separate the votes of local representatives from the national midterm elections in October. The move is to raise the stance of the leader of the Professional Party and former President Mauricio Macri before possible negotiations with President Mili to build a coalition in the province of Buenos Aires. But with La Libertad Avanza nearly doubled Pro in Sunday’s vote, a merger between the two parties is more likely to be similar to an acquisition.
“It’s a key day for free thinking,” said an ecstatic Miley at a campaign gathering in Buenos Aires on Sunday night. He added: “This is not a local election. It’s a choice between two modes: poor Kilchism or freedom. Freedom wins again.”
During the election competition, the president treated local races as if it were a national issue and joined Adorni for a citywide campaign. By contrast, the leadership of the Professional Party may think it could take advantage of its long tradition of ruling the city, which was slow enough to support its candidate, with former President Macri only appearing with Lospennato in the final weeks of the game.
Meanwhile, Uniónporla Patria candidate Santoro tried to understate his ties to the PKR, usually underperforming in Buenos Aires elections. His campaign focused on local issues, including the state of public health systems, waste collection and professional neglect of urban subway networks. Santoro led most polls in the weeks leading the election, but liberal efforts that liberals linked him to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner may have voters against him in the final days of the campaign.
“As a political project, a political project has stopped representing most Porteños,” Santoro said. “We understand the importance of outcomes, but we also adhere to the principles that bring us into politics, looking for a more just society.”
Dirty campaign
The political scandal obscured the election in the last few hours. Artificial Intelligence – The videotapes by Mauricio Macri and Silvia Lospennato misrepresented that they were withdrawing from the competition and endorsed Manuel Adorni.
Although laws banned political campaigns during this period, the videos circulated widely on X Saturday night and were amplified by a consistent account of liberals.
The legal team of professionals promptly filed a petition to the judiciary, prompting the local court to file Order X Delete the video.
By then, the information had spread widely, although it was unclear whether they affected the vote.
“It’s crazy, breaking all the rules in the book. We never call the media to condemn fraud,” Macri explain Sunday morning.
Liberals do not claim the authorship of these videos, but they see it as a humorous nature. “They should stop crying, they are made of crystals,” answer Milei, who calls Macri a “crying man.”
