By Nicolás Misculin

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -The defeat of Argentina’s Peronist opposition in October’s midterm election exposed the weaknesses of the fractured movement and its competing leaders and has raised questions about how it will plot a future comeback.

President Javier Milei’s party La Libertad Avanza did better than expected, persuading voters to give him a greater mandate to push forward with an ambitious economic overhaul. He is now in a position to build a powerful coalition bloc to fight Peronists that have rallied against Milei’s austerity measures and his deep cuts to the public sector.

The election made it clear Peronism will need to resolve a power struggle between two figures who want to hold the reins of the movement, analysts said.

Those figures are Axel Kicillof,

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