Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Argentinian voters handed President Javier Milei's libertarian party a landslide win in midterm elections in an endorsement of his program of radical government cuts and market reforms aimed at reversing the country's economic decline.
Milei's Freedom Advances party won more than 40% of the vote in Sunday's election for the National Congress, almost doubling the number of seats it held in the Senate to 13 and 64 in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house.
The center-left Peronist coalition, Homeland Force, picked up 31.7% of the vote, giving them a slim three-seat majority.
The Freedom Party's failure to win a majority leaves the Peronists the largest political force in both chambers but Milei hailed the result as a mandate to press on with his dismantling of Peronism, the leftist ideology that dominated Argentinian politics for more than seven decades.
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