🗳️ Milei beats Macri, Petro lures labor

ARGENTINA

Javier Milei is now Argentina’s mainstream right

Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei celebrated this weekend after winning a municipal election in Buenos Aires, ending a two-decade streak of dominance in the capital city by former President Mauricio Macri, a more moderate right-winger.

Macri’s candidate, Silvia Lospenatto, could only muster 16% of the vote and won none of the city's 15 communes. It was a brutal loss for their Republican Proposal (PRO) party, which had finished first in every local Buenos Aires City election between 2007 and 2023.

The winner was Milei’s national spokesperson Manuel Adorni, known for his daily morning press conferences in which he confronts journalists and lashes out at progressive ideas. Adorni took 30% of the vote, followed by the center-left Leandro Santoro with 27%.

As the map above shows, Milei won decisively in the richer northern areas that were once fully dominated by Macri and his center-right allies, suggesting a pragmatic shift by anti-Peronist voters.

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