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2. Without an absolute majority, but in a position of strength

Milei will now add sixty-four new deputies to Parliament, reaching 101 (the majority is at 129 out of 257).

Although Milei does not have an absolute majority, he will be able to block vetoes (eighty-six deputies were enough for him) and negotiate from a position of strength with the forces that seek to paralyze his reforms and return Argentina to welfare underdevelopment.

3. First fiscal surplus in fourteen years

Argentina closed 2024 with a financial fiscal surplus of 0.3% of GDP and a primary surplus of 1.8%, something that had not happened since 2008. The fiscal adjustment was equivalent to 5% of GDP, demolishing decades of state waste.

In Spain, that would be equivalent to cutting almost 80,000 million euros from the GDP, equivalent to 20% of the State budget. It is an amount greater than all Spanish spending on health, defense and education.

4. The chainsaw in action: 672 deregulatory reforms

In its first year, Milei has approved 672 regulatory reforms (almost two per day), eliminating obsolete and unnecessary regulations accumulated during decades of Peronist interventionism. Milei called him regulatory shock.

5. Argentina shows us the way

In Spain, more than 364,267 regulations have been published since 1976, including the central government, autonomies and city councils.

I repeat: 364,267.

In one year alone, 2024, 1,297,086 pages of standards were published. For a person to be completely up to date with the legislative news published, they would have to read 720 pages a day from the state BOE alone.

Spain ranks 97th in the World Bank ranking, which measures the ease of opening a business, and 31st out of 38 OECD countries in economic freedom.

We Spaniards are the true modern slaves and our slaver is the State. Spain is a country sacrificed on the altar of a corrupt state with morbid obesity and in which two out of every three Spaniards live off the third.

6. From nineteen ministries to nine

While Spain maintains twenty-two ministries with Pedro Sanchezmost of them dedicated exclusively to the propaganda battle against the PP in general and Ayuso In particular, Milei eliminated ten entire wallets from day one, reducing state structure and bureaucracy to return the money to its true owner: the citizens.

7. Monthly inflation of 2.1% compared to a peak of 25%

Monthly inflation in Argentina has fallen from 25% in December 2023 to 2.1% in September 2025. In annual terms, it has gone from 211% to projections of 30% for 2025. Kirchnerist hyperinflation has definitively been left behind.

8. Poverty reduced from 41.7% to 31.6%

Poverty has decreased by 10% since Milei became president, going from 41.7% to 31.6% in the first half of 2025, the lowest figure since 2018.

Destitution has dropped from 18.1% to 6.9%.

9. Economic growth of 5.5% projected

After Milei’s initial painful adjustment after his arrival to the presidency, the Argentine economy rebounded in a V shape.

The IMF projects Argentine growth of 5.5% by 2025. The sectors leading the productive recovery are energy and agriculture.

10. Dismantling of two hundred state areas

Milei’s government has eliminated two hundred administrative areas, cut 45,000 state contracts and reduced 30% of real year-on-year public spending.

Federico SturzeneggerMilei’s Minister of Deregulation and State Transformation, has promised more cuts.

11. Argentina has risen nineteen places in economic freedom

In the 2025 Economic Freedom Index, Argentina has risen from 145th to 124th place, the largest improvement of any country in a year.

Spain, in contrast, continues to occupy position 31 out of 38 in the OECD, leading the pack of the clumsy.

12. International recognition of the IMF, Trump and Wall Street

The director of the IMF has described the Milei program as “the most impressive case in recent history.” Even the Bank of Spain has recognized the success of the Argentine fiscal adjustment.

Milei’s victory has been helped by the promise of aid from Donald Trumpconditional on victory in the legislative elections this Sunday: an exchange stabilization agreement for 20,000 million dollars, additional lines of credit from private banks, purchase of Argentine sovereign bonds, multiplying purchases of Argentine meat by four, an advantageous trade agreement for Buenos Aires and a “rain” of investments in mining, energy and artificial intelligence.

Kirchnerism described the promises of the American president as “colonialism.” Bad colonialism, as opposed to good colonialism, which is that of China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela and Cuba.

Trump’s help, in any case, is not disinterested. A victory for Milei helps him, precisely, to hinder the expansion of Chinese networks of influence in Latin America and to block the advance of socialism in the region.

13. Single ballot: transparency and agility

For the first time in Argentina, a ticket unique on paper at the national level, improving transparency and reducing scrutiny times, something that in previous elections had spurred suspicions of rigging on the part of Kirchnerist socialism.

Participation this Sunday reached 68% of the register.

14. Spain doubles public spending without results

While Argentina cuts and grows (Milei has eliminated, for example, the Ministry of Gender, which Peronism used as a tool of propaganda intoxication, cutting 800 employees and saving billions) Spain maintains a record budget of 397,000 million euros with low execution, twenty-two ministries, 948 advisors (344 more than with Mariano Rajoy) and a deficit of 2.8% of GDP.

15. The cultural battle exists and if you don’t give it, they will give it to you

Milei has led a true cultural transformation, popularizing the concepts of freedom, meritocracy and fiscal responsibility in a country that had become a junkie of statist welfare. It remains to be seen whether this cultural paradigm shift is more than just a fad or whether Argentine libertarianism survives Milei himself, an extreme figure for better and worse.

16. Peronism has been defeated at the polls, but above all ideologically

The Fuerza Patria coalition has obtained only 31.7% of the votes and has been nine points below Milei’s party.

Kirchnerism, equivalent to the PSOE in Spain both ideologically and socially, has lost control of the narrative (what in Spain we call “the story”) after decades of cultural and political hegemony.

17. Argentina is today freer than Spain

This is the true historical paradox: the country that Spain saw as an example of statist failure today reduces its State, eliminates regulations and moves towards freedom.

Spain, with 7% less economic freedom than the OECD average, continues to be addicted to public spending, comfortable in its statist mediocrity (even the supposedly liberal opposition promises aid without rhyme or reason as a strategy to win the “centrist” vote), while observing in amazement how its former mirror of disasters today surpasses it in reformist courage.