La Libertad Avanza breaks 36 years of Peronist hegemony

This is the first time in 36 years that Peronism—in all its mutations, masks, and disguises—has lost the position of the largest minority. Today, with 95 seats, La Libertad Avanza occupies that historic place that no one thought possible. This is the clearest sign that Argentina has decided to upend the board, blow up the status quo, and open a path of deep reforms capable of changing the country forever. This is not a simple legislative turnover: it's a cultural earthquake that left the old political class watching from the outside as society decided to emancipate itself from the apparatus that had impoverished it for decades.

Meanwhile, as Congress is reconfigured, the last strongholds of Kirchnerism resist like trenches of a defeated army. Buenos Aires province, La Matanza, and the AFA have become the survival centers of the old regime. These are three enclaves where the impoverishing populism still lingers, the kind that promises utopias while destroying production, security, and institutions. What remains there is not power: it's pure desperation. However, the danger remains. Peronism is not dead; it's wounded. That's why this stage demands determination, boldness, and reforms that leave no room for the regrouping of failure.

The contrast between the Argentina that is emerging and the Argentina that resists dying is brutal. On one side, the country proposes a tax on cash and another on cow flatulence. Yes: on cash and on cow flatulence. This is the most visceral expression of revenue-driven poverty politics. Imagine what would have happened if they had won. Imagine Argentina governed by sectors that believe the problem is the people and that the solution is to punish them. What a narrow escape.

On the other side, the country is beginning to integrate into the world with signs of a dormant power. Germany will be the first client for Argentine LNG, with an eight-year contract worth 7 billion dollars. LNG exports to Europe open an unparalleled opportunity to position Argentina as a reliable and long-term energy supplier. Meanwhile, as Kirchnerism dreams of absurd taxes, the real country is beginning to generate foreign currency, investment, and predictability.

That is the difference between an ideology that destroys and a model that finally creates.

The obsession with punishing those who produce is also seen in the so-called "environmental fee"—another opaque trust—disguised as green policy. The tax on cow flatulence is a direct attack on the heart of Argentine agriculture. The case of Cañuelas confirms it. Marisa Fassi, K mayor, imposed a 124% tax hike that jeopardizes the price of beef in the locality where the main livestock market operates. They hate the countryside because the countryside doesn't depend on them. They hate the freedom to produce because it exposes their failure.

This divorce from reality also explains Axel Kicillof's shipwreck. The governor who promised a "present State" ended up leaving a bankrupt State. He increased the province's debt to finance political patronage, slush funds, and invented positions. The bill for his socialist adventure amounts to 3.7 billion dollars, which will be paid by generations who were not even born when he decided to play at revolution from an air-conditioned office. This is not clumsiness: it's ideology. Statist ideology always ends the same way: poverty and dependency.

The new Congress has the historic mission of completing what the people started at the polls: to eradicate impoverishing populism at its root and return to citizens a country where effort is rewarded, the law is enforced, and freedom is once again the rule, not the exception. This is the opportunity to consolidate the course set by President Milei, who is putting into practice what Professor Alberto Benegas Lynch (h) has been teaching for decades: unrestricted respect for each person's life project, based on the principle of non-aggression and in defense of the right to life, liberty, and property. That is the moral contract that can rebuild the Republic.

Argentina has already made the most difficult decision: to dare to change.