Argentina's Milei predicts swings in 2025 election at party launch via Reuters
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina's President, Javier Milei, said on Saturday that he is determined to shake up next year's mid-term legislative elections, during a meeting to launch his political party, as the country faces its worst economic crisis in years.
Winning the 2025 election would give Miley's liberal La Libertad Avanza (Liberty Advances) power in Congress, where she currently holds a minority in both chambers, undermining her ability to pass laws she considers key to her rule.
“We introduced the national team,” said Milei. “From now on we will only have good news. In 2025 we will make noise in the elections.”
The president made a rock-star appearance at the rally in Lelama Park in downtown Buenos Aires, jostling through crowds of thousands of fans and singing a rock song on stage.
The newcomer to politics, who took office in December, has lashed out at politicians, calling them “racist,” and journalists, whom he has called “corrupt” and “pieces of excrement.”
Many supporters were dressed as lions, Miley's symbol, and others were holding cardboard saws, which she used during her campaign to show her plans to cut the size of the empire.
Since taking office, Milei has cut billions of dollars in hard spending aimed at easing the world's highest inflation, but under his administration the poverty rate has risen by more than 10 percent to nearly 53 percent.
