Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez and Sergio Massa, President of the Chamber of Deputies, attend an event after midterm elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 14, 2021. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's Peronists licked their wounds on Monday after a damaging midterm election defeat, where the conservative opposition gained in key congressional battles across the country and erased the ruling coalition's Senate majority.
The opposition Juntos coalition, badly defeated in presidential elections in 2019, hammered the ruling Frente de Todos party by almost 20 points nationwide in the battle for the Senate, where a third of seats were up for grabs.
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