The Liberty Advances Party of Argentina, led by President Javier Milei, secured a decisive and unexpected victory in the country’s midterm elections on Sunday, granting the libertarian president a mandate to continue his dismantling of two decades of socialist policies.

Liberty Advances obtained nearly 41 percent of the vote for seats in Argentina’s House of Representatives, compared to 31.7 percent of the vote going to a coalition of leftist parties campaigning against Milei’s conservative restructuring of the government. Liberty Advances won 64 new seats and now holds 93 seats on its own in the House, compared to 97 seats in the hands of Fuerza Patria, the left-wing coalition — which lost four seats.

The numbers represent a victory for the Milei party in 16 of the nation’s 23 provi

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