Argentina's President Javier Milei celebrates after winning in legislative midterm elections in Buenos Aires. (Photo: AP)

US President Donald Trump on Monday congratulated Argentina’s President Javier Milei on his party’s surprise victory in the midterm elections on Sunday. In the election widely seen as a referendum on Milei’s past two years in office, his upstart La Libertad Avanza party scored over 40 per cent of votes compared with 31 per cent for the left-leaning populist opposition movement.

‘Milei had lot of help form US’

Trump, whose administration recently initiated a US bailout for Argentina, suggested his support helped Milei win the election.

“He had a lot of help from us,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One while on his way from Malaysia to Japan. “I gave him an endor

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