The Argentine electoral system provides for presidential elections every four years and partial renewals of Congress every two years. This guarantees that the president who takes office is forced to coexist and negotiate with a good portion of legislators who won elections.
Javier Milei is the result of the most unfavorable combination that this scheme contemplates. Milei could govern by sending Congress a minimum package of laws each year that allows him to carry out his administration, says Juan Carlos Varela, an analyst at the University of Buenos Aires.