Following a meeting on Tuesday last week on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, US President Donald Trump described his Argentinian counterpart, Javier Milei, as a truly fantastic and powerful leader. He told reporters, I'm doing something I don't often do I'm giving my full endorsement to him. The next day, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that he was working in close coordination with President Milei and would do what is necessary to support Argentina's economy.
Javier Milei has lost his lucky star. His redeeming power, emanating from the forces of heaven, as he often likes to say, was mercilessly crushed at the September 7 election in Buenos Aires province by Kirchnerist Peronism, the very embodiment of all possible evils in Milei's view. The unexpected and resounding result in favor of the left a difference of almost 14 points, a million votes exposed the king.
The ruling National Council for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) party, led by President Evariste Ndayishimiye, faces little electoral threat after a series of moves neutralized its primary rival, the National Freedom Council (CNL).