CIVICUS discusses Argentina’s legislative election with Carlos Gervasoni, director of the Department of Political Science and International Studies at Torcuato Di Tella University.
On 26 October, Argentina held a legislative election that consolidated President Javier Milei’s power in Congress. Milei, who positions himself as an anti-establishment leader with a stridently free-market economic agenda, won a resounding victory that suggests a profound transformation of Argentina’s political system. Political polarisation and the government’s alignment with the global far right, epitomised by Donald Trump’s explicit support for Milei, present new challenges for civil society.
