Argentine President Javier Milei narrowly avoided a major defeat in Congress as lawmakers struggled to obtain enough votes to partly overturn his veto of a pension spending bill.
The lower house of Congress voted 160-83 to reject the veto Wednesday night, just short of the two-thirds threshold needed. An override would also have required a vote in the Senate. The bill Milei vetoed would have boosted pension payments and risked the libertarian government’s budget surplus, highly prized by investors.