The Sunday’s elections in Argentina They left a fragmented Congress, in which Peronism (center-left) will hold the first minority in both chambers, the right was confirmed as the second force and the extreme right registered a strong advance to be third, according to the latest official counts.
The Peronist Union for the Homeland (UP), whose presidential candidate, the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, won the first round with 36.6%, lost 10 seats but will remain as the first minority in the Chamber of Deputies since December, with 108 of the seats. 257 seats.
Yeah Massa prevails in the runoff, Peronism will need more than twenty opposition deputies to ensure the minimum quorum of 129 deputies to deliberate and debate laws. The lower house renews half of its seats every two years.
The Freedom Advances (LLA), led by Javier Milei (29.9%), who will compete with Massa in the runoff on November 19, had only 3 deputies since 2021, including the candidate himself, but on Sunday it won another 35 seats, adding up to 38.
The second force in the lower house will continue to be the center-right coalition Together for Change (JxC), whose candidate Patricia Bullrich (23.8%) was left out of the runoff. The bench will have 93 deputies (it put 55 in play and only retained 31).
An eventual alliance of the LLA deputies with those of JxC, such as the one proposed immediately after the elections by Mileiwould ensure a tight majority of the lower house against Peronism.
The composition of Deputies is completed with 7 dissident Peronists, 6 from provincial parties and 5 from the left.
In the Senate, of 72 seats (three for each of the 23 provinces and three for the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires), Peronism displaced JxC as the first minority by securing 34 seats (it had 31). The quorum to deliberate is 37 seats.
The right-wing coalition BullrichOn the other hand, she lost 9 senatorships and came second, with 24.
Also in the Senate the great advance was made by the LLA of Mileiwhich two years after its founding will enter the upper house for the first time with 8 seats, ahead of other dissident Peronists (3) and provincial parties (3).
Reaching the minimum quorum to deliberate in the Senate (37 seats) will depend on cross alliances between the different groups.
Source: Gestion
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