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Argentina’s divided opposition may be Milei’s greatest asset

04-09-2025 07:00 Milei’s greatest advantage is not his economic programme or ideological crusade, but the incoherence of those who oppose him.

Poll: Milei’s party, Peronists neck-and-neck in Buenos Aires Province

02-09-2025 10:38 Tight race expected in Buenos Aires Province elections; Fuerza Patria slightly ahead of La Libertad Avanza-PRO, according to new poll, but within margin of error.

Milei set to lose Bullrich and Petri after elections, reshuffle ahead

18-08-2025 12:42 Security and Defence ministers likely to leave Cabinet in December; Former Juntos por el Cambio presidential ticket now set to run for congressional posts representing La Libertad Avanza.

October legislative race takes shape, polarised contest looms

18-08-2025 12:21 La Libertad Avanza, Peronism, centre-ground Provincias Unidas and left-wing fronts close candidate lists ahead of a pivotal vote for Javier Milei’s government.

Anatomy of a macrocephalic

19-07-2025 18:53 While the last census of 2022 showed that Argentina’s population had risen some 15% since the Bicentenary count of 2010, the population of Greater Buenos Aires only rose 9%.

by Michael Soltys

Corruption claims and political miscalculations

12-07-2025 06:16 The Milei government must defend its hard-fought macroeconomic stability at all costs, at least until the election. That’s why Caputo and Milei went on the offensive, making the rounds with their typical, friendly interviewers to accuse provincial governors and the opposition at large of seeking to destabilise the government.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Where angels fear to tread

31-05-2025 06:33 The demolition job suffered by PRO in the City has most provinces now thinking twice about advancing their elections and exposing local hegemonies to the forces of heaven.

by Michael Soltys

Milei’s purple patch

24-05-2025 06:38 The headlines all reflect a Milei triumph and a PRO catastrophe (the government objectives in almost equal measure), both accurate enough but also relative.

by Michael Soltys

PRO versus La Libertad Avanza: Chronicle of a death foretold?

18-05-2025 23:26 With the necessary caveats, the time that passed between the 2023 election and this weekend’s elections in Buenos Aires City could be seen as a remake of ‘The Sixth Sense’: PRO had been “dead” all along – but didn’t know it.

by Juan Luis González

Milei wins big in Buenos Aires City vote, dethroning Macri

18-05-2025 22:56 Javier Milei cements his hold on Argentina’s political right months before pivotal midterm elections.

Milei, Macri exchange insults as fake AI video angers PRO

18-05-2025 18:16 Mauricio Macri and Silvia Lospennato point finger at La Libertad Avanza and its online militants for AI video; Low-quality clip shared by libertarian social media accounts falsely claims ex-president pulled PRO candidate, endorsed Manuel Adorni in City elections.

Test for Milei as City vote goes national

16-05-2025 10:34 PRO’s hegemony in Buenos Aires City in balance; La Libertad Avanza eyes breakthrough with Adorni a placeholder for Milei; Peronists confident.

City midterms: Tensions on right, but PRO vows clean fight

04-04-2025 14:52 Presidential Spokesperson Manuel Adorni, who will run for the City legislature this May, promises to take up his seat if elected.

Who’s who: The candidates heading lists for Buenos Aires City midterms

30-03-2025 10:01 Main candidates are already defined for the Buenos Aires City midterms in May – Silvia Lospennato, Leandro Santoro, Manuel Adorni, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Ramiro Marra are the names that head the highest-polling options.

PRO says it won’t support Milei’s Supreme Court push

27-02-2025 19:50 Former president Mauricio Macri – who in 2015 attempted to impose Supreme Court justices by decree before backtracking – says his PRO party will not support appointment by decree.

Rodríguez Larreta says he will return to frontline politics

25-02-2025 17:18 Former Buenos Aires City mayor and failed presidential candidate to stand as candidate in upcoming elections “as a lawmaker, as a deputy or as a senator.”

Macri tells Milei he’s ready to team up for midterms

09-01-2025 21:13 Former president uses social media to respond to head of state’s flirting and tells him PRO is “ready to form a work team with whoever you offer.”

Caste away

21-12-2024 05:07 If our parliamentarians are going to be their own men or women, some way must be found of making them fully accountable to their voters.

by Michael Soltys

Macri and Milei’s ‘special kind of psychology’

26-10-2024 06:01 Macri knows he’s in a position of weakness. Milei and his libertarian horde swept his electorate and forced the fracture of his Juntos por el Cambio coalition. But despite lending his votes, the former president and his team have been excluded.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Selling your soul to the devil?

31-08-2024 05:40 Macri and Milei are still feeling each other out, much like heavyweight boxers who dance around each other throwing light jabs for fear of being hit with an uppercut. All of which begs the question, who will stab the other one in the back first?

by Agustino Fontevecchia