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Javier Milei’s painful but necessary reform project gets needed momentum after midterm elections.For decades, Argentina’s political leadership has rotated between spendthrift socialists snuffing out economic growth – and would be free-marketeer reformers undermined by their own timidity. Over the past two years, Argentine President Javier Milei has come closer than anyone to changing the narrative, and voters just gave him permission to keep going.“Today we pass the turning point,” Milei told supporters late Sunday, as his La Libertad Avanza party won 41 percent of the national vote in midterm elections. That first-place finish can fairly be called a landslide in...

Early results in Argentina’s legislative elections on Sunday showed a landslide victory for President Javier Milei as voters overwhelmingly backed his free-market reforms and deep austerity measures, providing a strong boost for the libertarian leader to continue his economic overhaul. The president’s party, La Libertad Avanza, scored 41.5% of the vote in Buenos Aires province compared with 40.8% for the Peronist coalition, according to official results. The province has long been a political stronghold for the Peronists, marking a dramatic political shift. Nationwide, La Libertad Avanza got 64 seats in the House of Deputies, up from 37, according to government...