Argentine President Javier Milei confirmed that ruling party La Libertad Avanza (LLA) and PRO, their main ally in Congress, will form an alliance and run together in Buenos Aires province for the local and national-level elections in 2025. 

“We’re going to go together, and we’re going to win. We’re going to win the elections in September and in October,” Milei said in an interview Saturday morning with Radio Mitre. Buenos Aires province will hold legislative elections on September 7 — there are no PASO in 2025 — and a national election for deputies and senators along with the rest of the country on October 26.

Milei took aim against BA Province Governor Axel Kicillof, one of the president’s harshest critics and of the key figures of the opposition. “We’re going to give him a beating in the polls now, and in 2027, we’re going to snatch the province,” he said, referencing the elections for governor set to take place in two years. 

The announcement comes on the heels of presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni’s victory in the Buenos Aires City local elections and after months of speculation that Milei Macri would join electoral forces. 

The libertarian leader added that LLA’s top candidate for the Lower House in 2025 will be current lawmaker José Luis Espert, calling him a “crucial figure.” Despite recent spats with former president and PRO leader Mauricio Macri, Milei said that Macri sent him a message after Adorni’s victory in which he accepted defeat. 

“He congratulated me and had generous words. I responded with the usual affection,” the president said. 

Although Macri has supported Milei’s economic reforms, the possibility of an alliance seemed at risk due to their clashes over other issues. Following the failure of the anti-graft bill Ficha Limpia, Macri said that the possibility of a common electoral front was “complicated,” adding that he had “no idea” what Milei was thinking. 

The relationship between PRO and LLA reached a breaking point when, hours before the BA City election, popular libertarian troll accounts spread two deepfake AI-generated videos of Macri and candidate Silvia Lospennato saying she was stepping down from the race. PRO publicly attributed this to LLA, saying they were attempting “electoral fraud.”

Milei seemed to add fuel to the fire in the aftermath of Adorni’s victory last Sunday, saying that Macri “needs to understand that his time has passed.”