BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Voters across Argentina’s most populous province of Buenos Aires headed to the polls on Sunday to choose lawmakers in an unusually high-stakes local election seen as a referendum on the performance of libertarian President Javier Milei and a bellwether for crucial midterms next month.

The Buenos Aires provincial election is polarized between Milei’s recently formed libertarian party and Peronism, the ideologically flexible populist movement that has held sway in Argentina for decades.

Milei, whose barely 4-year-old La Libertad Avanza party has subsumed much of the center-right, views this a chance to embarrass the Peronist opposition led by former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in its historic stronghold.

“These elections will be useful to unders

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