For clues as to why President Javier Milei faces trouble in next week's midterms, look no further than San Andrés de Giles, a sleepy farming town surrounded by wheat fields located some 120 kilometres from Buenos Aires.
The town backed Milei in late 2023, when the 54-year-old economist swept to power as an outsider promising to fix Argentina's broken economy. Two years earlier, it had supported Peronist candidate Alberto Fernández, making it one of the country’s electoral swing towns.
Milei won 58 percent of the vote in Giles, as its known, higher than his national average of 55.65 percent.
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