Milei’s Win in Argentina Was Rebuke of Past, Aided by Trump
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By Leila Miller and Lucinda Elliott BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentine President Javier Milei's libertarian alliance made strong gains in Sunday's midterm elections, but he now faces the challenge of showing he can build a coalition to push through investor-desired reforms,
Argentina's right-wing President Javier Milei declares himself "king of a lost world" after midterms victory aided by massive bailout by the Trump administration.
Argentine President Javier Milei has hailed his party’s resounding victory in midterm congressional elections as a mandate to press forward with radical free-market reforms
Milei’s libertarian party defied poll predictions, tripling its congressional seats to advance free-market reforms.
So will the government of Donald Trump, which has been backing Mr Milei and buying pesos to prop up the Argentine currency. Yet the impressive victory has caveats. Turnout of 68%, in a country with compulsory voting,
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President Donald Trump appears to have had a major influence on the outcome of the Argentine election this week.