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Montevideo, May 9th 2025 - 11:31 UTC

Tag: La Libertad Avanza

  • Thursday, October 10th 2024 - 09:11 UTC

    Milei's veto of college funding bill survives Congressional challenge

    Overriding his veto would have meant “giving in to the old policy and return to the Country Risk we had with Kirchnerism,” Milei explained

    Despite lacking a majority of its own, Argentina's ruling La Libertad Avanza (LLA) Wednesday succeeded at the Lower House in keeping enforceable President Javier Milei's veto from last week against the newly approved university funding bill by garnering a total of 84 votes with help from occasional allies such as a few rogue UCR lawmakers, thus rendering the opposition's 164 votes insufficient after key abstentions to override the presidential decision.

  • Monday, September 30th 2024 - 09:58 UTC

    Milei launches LLA nationwide with 2025 elections in sight

    “We are the best government in Argentine history,” Milei also claimed

    Argentine President Javier Milei launched his political party La Libertad Avanza (LLA) as a nationwide force ahead of next year's mid-term elections during an event at the Parque Lezama amphitheater in Buenos Aires before scores of would-be followers bussed to the site, Kirchnerism style.

  • Monday, September 2nd 2024 - 15:04 UTC

    Key passenger tells his version of bomb threat aboard Aerolíneas Argentinas flight

    A fellow traveler apparetly from Brazil told flight attendants Coto was carrying a bomb, which caused the emergency landing and police deployment

    X user Agustín Coto, arguably the main character in the Aerolíneas Argentinas flight AR 1883 bomb threat saga, posted his version of the events on his social media account, which shed some additional light onto the events surrounding Sunday's service between Ushuaia and Buenos Aires, which already got additional notoriety for carrying celebrities Carmen Barbieri and Marcelo Polino as passengers.

  • Wednesday, August 28th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Milei announces documentary about his path to Casa Rosada

    The six-episode production will be broadcast through X

    Argentine President Javier Milei Tuesday launched a film series on his fast political career to be made available through the social media platform X. The docuseries still has no premiere date and will be directed by Casa Rosada's regisseur Santiago Oría. The production will be titled “From Zero to President. The Phenomenon that Captivates the World.”

  • Friday, April 12th 2024 - 10:02 UTC

    Libertarian Lower House bloc dented over Impeachment Committee chair feud

    The rift with Zago came as Casa Rosada needs Congress to pass a new version of the so-called Omnibus Law bill

    Argentine President Javier Milei's La Libertad Avanza (LLA) Lower House bloc head Oscar Zago was replaced by Gabriel Bornoroni following a misunderstanding involving the Impeachment Committee's chair.

  • Wednesday, February 7th 2024 - 10:50 UTC

    Parliamentarian setback for Milei's Omnibus Law bill

    “The governors did not keep their word,” Zago said.

    Argentine President Javier Milei's La Libertad Avanza (LLA) Tuesday suffered a major blow in Congress when its workhorse Omnibus Law bill was sent back to further treatment by the various Lower House committees, thus annulling last Friday's broad approval.

  • Wednesday, December 20th 2023 - 10:42 UTC

    Argentina: Milei to explain drastic measures

    Argentina: Milei to explain drastic measures on national TV and radio

    Argentine President Javier Milei will go on national television on Wednesday to explain the scope of his most-encompassing emergency decree (DNU) to deregulate the economy with more than 600 provisions.

  • Thursday, December 14th 2023 - 10:01 UTC

    Milei's LLA gets to appoint 2nd in line to Casa Rosda lawmaker

    Villarruel was praised for brokering a majority vote with no help from Peronism

    President Javier Milei's La Libertad Avanza (LLA) Wednesday managed to get Senator Bartolomé Abdala from the province of San Luis elected Provisional Speaker of the Upper House. The lawmaker thus became second in line to the Casa Rosada behind Vice President Victoria Villarruel, who was praised for her political skills brokering a majority with no help from Peronism to garner 39 votes in favor of Abdala and 29 abstentions with no negative voices.

  • Friday, September 29th 2023 - 09:21 UTC

    Is Milei fit for the presidential debates?

    People in Argentina wonder why Milei canceled an interview with the CNN and skipped other engagements

    According to uncorroborated rumors circulating in Buenos Aires Thursday, Congressman Javier Milei, the presidential candidate from La Libertad Avanza (LLA) was suffering from some sort of mental breakdown, which raised the possibility that he might not be fit for the mandatory debates with the other four contenders who made it through the Aug. 13 Mandatory, Open, and Simultaneous Primary (PASO) elections.

  • Saturday, September 16th 2023 - 11:23 UTC

    Malvinas Council rejects Libertarian candidate's statement on Falklanders' rights

    “The United Nations has characterized the Malvinas question as a special and particular case of decolonization,” the Council stressed

    Argentina's Malvinas Council issued a statement condemning the stance of presidential candidate Javier Milei's La Libertad Avanza (LLA) party regarding the “self-determination” of the Falkland Islanders and insisted that “the pretended reference of the islanders as a third party to the dispute is a central component of the British diplomatic strategy.”

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