Argentine President Javier Milei’s La Libertad Avanza coalition achieved a significant result in the parliamentary elections held on October 26, 2025. Formally, voters renewed half of the Chamber of Deputies and one third of the Senate, but in practice the ballot was seen as a test of Milei himself and of his sweeping economic overhaul.
According to preliminary results, the president’s allies won 40.7% of the vote in the lower house race, while the Peronist alliance Fuerza Patria and aligned forces received 31.7%. Based on Clarin’s calculations, Milei’s camp will hold 93 of 257 seats, an increase of 56. That gives the coalition more than one third of the chamber and makes it far harder for the opposition to override presidential vetoes.
In the Senate contest, the Peronists received 28.4%, while La Libertad Avanza won 42%. As a result, Fuerza Patria will control 26 of 72 seats, while Milei’s allies will hold 19. After the results were announced, the president called it a “historic day” and said voters had chosen a path of “freedom, progress and growth.”
Milei’s campaign relied heavily on his image as an anti-establishment leader and the author of economic “shock therapy.” Since late 2023, his administration has pushed large-scale reforms through an emergency decree introducing more than 300 economic measures and through an omnibus law allowing executive action in several policy areas. The government has cut ministries and secretariats, dismissed at least 50,000 public employees, reduced subsidies, and expanded deregulation.
The economic record remains mixed. The authorities have prioritized lower inflation, an end to money issuance, and new investment, but looser currency controls and the peso’s decline have increased pressure on business: annual loan rates for small and medium-sized firms have climbed above 60%. At the same time, two October opinion polls found that 37% of Argentines viewed Milei positively, while 47–48% viewed him negatively.
An earlier warning sign for the government came in the September election in Buenos Aires Province, where Milei’s bloc lost the vote to Fuerza Patria. Even so, at the national level the president succeeded in strengthening his position. Analysts say Milei now faces a dual challenge: preserving the backing of voters who supported his hard anti-system message while also learning to negotiate with allies and parts of the opposition without undermining the political base that brought him to power.