The weekly meeting that the government usually holds with the deputies of La Libertad Avanza, the PRO and the MID had a novelty this Wednesday: the presence of Rodrigo de Loredo along with other radicals, including Luis Picat. The latter is part of the group of five UCR deputies (Campero, Picat, Arjol, Cervi and Tournier) who accompanied the government to support the veto of the increase in pensions and the University Financing Law. The photo, released with the endorsement of De Loredo, revealed that “radicals with wigs” are several more than was believed and accelerated the rupture that had been brewing in the bloc of Deputies.
“This is an overacting by Rodrigo De Loredo, who has decided to wear the wig along with Campero and the rest of the deputies. The bloc of radicalism is broken, they broke it,” said Fernando Carbajal in statements to Radio Con Vos during the afternoon of today. The statement was the prelude to the decision that would be made later by those responding to Lousteau and Manes, who ended up formalizing the breakup. “Evidently they are reshaping that group towards unconditional support of the ruling party,” he stated.
The decision exposes what has been happening since Milei took office and that has deepened in recent times. It exists within radicalism an openly collaborative sector with the government of La Libertad Avanza, which has been key for the ruling party to obtain the votes for the sanction of projects such as The Bases Law or to hinder the repeal of the DNU and presidential vetoes. A precarious formula, in exchange for all kinds of perks, that exposes the government’s weakness but at the same time has allowed it to make its way in both chambers despite having very minority blocs of its own.
The economic plan is working.
For this reason, we support the policy of fiscal balance. pic.twitter.com/KN9cfkCfqQ— Mariano Campero 🇦🇷 (@mariano_campero) October 24, 2024
The fracture of the bloc was a reality, it just had not yet been made official. In recent days, the De Loredo sector had been holding several meetings and negotiations regarding the 2025 Budget, but until today they had not been public. Manes, Lousteau and company knew it, but despite that they negotiated the distribution of positions within the bloc and did everything possible to postpone the breakup. This Wednesday’s decision by the president of the radical party, accepting the formal invitation to the Casa Rosada and making public the photo of the meeting, left them no other option.
Once the division is complete, the new bloc will bring together 12 radical deputies. Its members will be Manuel Aguirre (Corrientes), Marcela Antola (Entre Ríos), Fernando Carbajal (Formosa), Carla Carrizo (CABA), Mariela Coletta (CABA), Marcela Coli (La Pampa), Melina Giorgi (Santa Fe), Pablo Juliano (PBA), Facundo Manes (PBA), Danya Tavela (PBA), Juan Carlos Polini (Chaco) and Jorge Rizzotti (Jujuy). “Today the president of the bloc and a group of radical deputies decided to join the ruling party as allies,” they expressed in a statement in which they assure that in this situation the “only way is to build a new alternative.”
The fracture of the bloc and the new regrouping (which Pablo Juliano will preside over but which still does not have a name) leaves the bloc chaired by De Loredo with 21 seats but much more linked to the Government, which celebrates the break and practically notes them as its own. One more example of the negotiations, the shuffling of charges and the exchange of political will for all kinds of privileges with the caste that claimed to come to fight.
On the other hand, the “new” radical bench will be made up of 6 men and 6 women, with representation from 9 provinces of which 4 have governors from the UCR. Among them is Melina Giorgi from Santa Fe who responds to the right-wing Maximiliano Pullaro from Santa Fe.
A piece of information from deputies and governors of the UCR:
-Pullaro from Santa Fe would stay with Giorgi in a new block
-Sadir/Morales de Jujuy: with one on each side (Rizzotti in new, Sarapura in the other)
-Zdero de Chaco: with one on each side (Polini in new, Cipolini in the other) https://t.co/8ZEmy9up5r— Jesica Calcagno (@Jesi_mc) October 23, 2024
It is confirmed like this a long overdue fracturenot because the collaboration of the “radicals with a wig” and the De Loredo sector is something new but because until the last moment The group of Manes and Lousteau held negotiations to retain more representation within the bloc with positions such as the Vice President, headed by Karina Banfi, and the Secretary, in the hands of Soledad Carrizo. With the thread frustrated and with the public photo of this Wednesday’s meeting, there was no room for a breakup.
It remains to be seen how this new bloc will be located in the scheme of alliances and parliamentary negotiations, but what is certain is that it will be far from a progressive position that confronts milleism in favor of the workers and the popular sectors. The alignment with governors like Pullaro, the negotiations on labor reform, the last-minute discussion with the radicals/libertarians and the positions that the UCR has maintained throughout these last few years, and particularly in these ten months since it took office Milei, they are enough proof that this is not the path of those who decided to leave the block.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
