00:00Argentinian President Javier Milley suffered a sweeping loss in a key Buenos Aires provincial election on Sunday.
00:09The vote was seen as a litmus test for how well his Libertarian party is set to perform in legislative elections next month.
00:17His recently formed La Libertad Avanza party scored just 34% of the vote in Argentina's biggest province,
00:23losing by a landslide to the left-leaning Peronist opposition led by former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who scored 47% of the vote.
00:33Sin ninguna dudas, en el plano polÃtico, hoy hemos tenido una clara derrota.
00:40Y si alguien quiere empezar a reconstruir y salir adelante, lo primero que hay que aceptar son los resultados.
00:46Y hoy los resultados no han sido positivos y hemos tenido un revés electoral y hay que aceptarlo.
00:52Kirchner was seen waving wildly to her supporters from the balcony of her home in celebration.
00:58A corruption conviction has barred her from politics and placed her under house arrest, but she remains an influential Peronist leader.
01:06Milley now needs to expand his party's tiny minority in the opposition-dominated Congress in midterms next month
01:13to fulfill his radical libertarian vision for Argentina's crisis-stricken economy.
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