President Javier Milei has vowed to press on with his economic reforms after his party won midterm elections. Half of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies and one-third of the Senate seats were available in the
Argentina’s voters back Milei in midterm elections
President Javier Milei has vowed to press on with his economic reforms after his party won midterm elections. Half of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies and one-third of the Senate seats were available in the ballot
Argentina’s President Javier Milei throws out his arms as he celebrates his party’s victory in midterm elections on October 26, 2025
Argentina’s President Javier Milei, center, promises to push ahead with his reform agenda after his party’s strong showing in midterm electionsImage: Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo/dpa/picture alliance
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.
Half of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies and one-third of the Senate seats were up for grabs in Sunday’s midterm elections. Executive positions, such as the president and vice president, were not on the ballot.
Milei celebrates ‘turning point’ for Argentina
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.”
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.
