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Tiago Rogero in Rio de Janeiro and Facundo Iglesia in Buenos Aires

Argentinians deliver electoral blow to Milei’s scandal-rocked government

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President Javier Milei delivers a speech on Sunday after Argentina's opposition Peronist party triumphed in the legislative elections in Buenos Aires province. Photograph: Tomás Cuesta/Reuters

Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, has suffered his worst electoral defeat since taking office, as he faces his administration’s most serious corruption scandal and signs that the economy is slowing.

In local legislative elections on Sunday for Buenos Aires province – home to almost 40% of the country’s electorate – the coalition led by the self-styled anarcho-capitalist was beaten by the opposition by 47% to 34%.

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