The Buenos Aires provincial election is a test of Milei’s popularity ahead of upcoming congressional polls next month.

Javier Milei's recently formed La Libertad Avanza party captured just 34% of the vote in Argentina's biggest province in what the leader conceded was a "clear defeat."View on euronews

The party of Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei suffered a sweeping setback in Buenos Aires provincial elections that are viewed as a barometer for how the party will perform in congressional midterms and a key test for the embattled president.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentina's opposition Peronist party triumphed on Sunday in the legislative elections in the important province of Buenos Aires, leaving the central government party in a distant second place, the provisional official tally showed. (Reporting by Jorge Otaola, writing by Stefanie Eschenbacher; Editing by Kim Coghill)

Voters in Argentina’s Buenos Aires province head to the polls Sunday in a local election viewed by investors as a bellwether for President Javier Milei’s libertarian party before national midterms in October.

Millions of voters across Argentina’s most populous province of Buenos Aires were heading to the polls to choose lawmakers in an unusually high-stakes local election seen as a referendum on the perfor