After the meeting at Casa Rosada, the radical internal conflict intensifies: “No one becomes an official for free”

These are the radical deputies who make up the block of Democracy Foreverwith an express contrast with libertarian policies. In that sense, and after the meeting was made public, the man from Formosa Fernando Carbajal He expressed on his social networks his rejection of possible parliamentary agreements between the radical and libertarian groups.

“Example of the ‘postponed reforms’ that were achieved: lowering the retiree salarydefund the public universitiestransfer funds to SIDE to pay trolls and bonuses to civil servants, and cut the remedies to PAMI. Well, keep going. Do you have anything left?” he published. Minutes later, he intensified his repudiation: “The photo of shame. Javier and Karina’s stockings soaked from so much suction. Nobody becomes an official for free“.

For his part, the Corrientes Manuel Aguirre was also critical on his social network account meeting between Javier Milei and Rodrigo de Loredo together with the ‘UCR deputies‘ demand the budget 2025and that in the same retirees and education should not be ignored. Do not act as a government collector, or They will end up just like the PRO.”

Meeting of radical deputies with Javier Milei

A group of thirteen national deputies of the UCR, among which are the three expelled from the party for collaborating with their votes to shield Javier Milei’s veto on the retirement mobility and university financing laws, They held a meeting this Thursday with President Javier Milei at Casa Rosada. Also representing the Government was the Secretary General of the Nation, Karina Mileithe Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrichand the head of the lower house, Martin Menem.

Minutes after the meeting, the president of the UCR bloc in DeputiesRodrigo de Loredonoted that “we agree on a reformist spirit of an Argentina that must be decorporatized “releasing our productive forces and strategically exploiting our resources to increase the wealth and reduce poverty of our country.”

“Low inflation and greater economic stability are an undeniable achievement. Also deregulation. In the new stage that is opening We agree with the president in prioritizing, among other measures, the investment regime for SMEsa project developed in our block and that the government also promotes,” De Loredo himself noted on his account on the social network X.

In addition to De Loredo, the radicals who took part in the meeting, held in the Eva Perón Hall, were Mariano Campero, Martín Arjol, Luis Picat, Julio Cobos, Soledad Carrizo, Roxana Reyes, Atilio Benedetti, Pamela Verasay, Pablo Cervi, Lisandro Nieri, Federico Tournier and Francisco Monti.

Expulsion of three deputies from the UCR

Before the start of the new parliamentary year, which promises redefinitions in the formation of the blocks, the Radical Civic Union (UCR) determined the expulsion from the party of deputies Mariano Campero (Tucumán), Martín Arjol (Misiones) and Luis Picat (Córdoba)for having supported the presidential vetoes against the increase in retirement benefits and the university budget. Space did not disaffiliate Mario Cervi (Neuquén) because he abstained in the second mentioned vote.

In the decision of UCR Ethics Courtreleased this week and signed by the electoral judge Maria Servini, It is clarified that “misconduct is not being blamed for having voted away from the bloc or simply for having changed the vote” but rather they consider ““it is unacceptable to ignore the context in which the reproached behavior took place and the circumstances surrounding the decision to vote in favor of accepting the veto.”

In this framework, they remember that the sanctioned deputies, like the Corrientes Joseph Tournier (member of the caucus, but without affiliation to radicalism) met with Javier Milei before changing his decision and supporting his veto, which was finally ratified by a third of the lower house. “It was not a surprise act, to which the participants could have been induced, surprised or deceived, but rather a deliberately provocative attitude, knowing the impact that that encounter“, considered the Court of Ethics in its ruling.