The government of Argentine President Javier Milei received an important supporting Sunday with the triumph of his candidate in the elections to local legislators in the capital of the South American country.
Manuel Adorni, the presidential spokesman, LIt identified the provisional results with 30.1% of the votes, while the opponent Leandro Santoro took 27.42% with 77.6% of the scrutinized tables.
Although only 30 deputies were elected to the elections for the Legislature of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Milei, A libertarian politician who assumed the presidency at the end of 2023, sought to nationalize the election using in the campaign the economic achievements achieved by his management.
“The government nationalizes (the election) And it makes a plebiscite of this, “said Mariel Fornoni, a political analyst of the Maneagement & Fit consultancy.
“On the national scenario, the government has the appeal to have controlled inflation, of having been able to achieve the zero deficit, the dollar did not move (…) That is the main asset of the government and it also happens that people do not want to go back and there are no emerging leadership, “he added.
The elections in Buenos Aires mark an important step towards the mid -term national elections, where Argentines must renew half of the benches of the Chamber of Deputies and one third of those of the Senate.
Adorni, headed the list of candidates of the official party La Libertad Avanza (Lla), and faced Santoro, that he was the favorite in most of the surveys and whoever was a supporter of the Peronism of former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
The main defeat was from Silvia Lospennato, the candidate of the Pro party, exaliate of Milei who currently disputes the center -right space with the president, to which many criticize their violent style and detachment for institutions.
