Argentina's Milei predicts 2025 election shakeup at party launch

Argentine President Javier Milei gestures as he delivers remarks onstage during a rally to launch his party, La Libertad Avanza, nationally, in Buenos Aires, Argentina September 28, 2024. REUTERS/Matias Baglietto

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine President Javier Milei said on Saturday he intends to shake up the country's midterm legislative elections next year, during a rally for the national launch of his political party, as the country battles its worst economic crisis in decades.

Winning the 2025 elections would give Milei's libertarian La Libertad Avanza (Liberty Advances) party power in Congress, where it currently holds a minority in both chambers, hampering its ability to approve laws it considers key to its governance.