Argentina’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 2.3% in the first quarter of 2026 and 2% in the second from a year earlier, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) — a picture that entered the first debate of Brazil’s runoff, when Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) asked Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) whether he intended to reproduce Javier Milei’s economic policy in Brazil, according to G1.