Corrientes and Santiago del Estero They will have a 2025 of high electoral intensity because along with the legislative elections, the elections will be held to renew the position of governorelections that do not coincide with the rest of the districts due to the federal interventions they went through. Freedom Advances is preparing to participate in both provinces with its own candidates who have strong support from the Casa Rosada and the National Congress. It’s about Corrientes Lisandro Almirón and from Santiago Thomas Figueroa.
Almirón was elected national deputy in 2023 for La Libertad Avanza and It is one of the most important libertarian swordsboth in his province and in Congress. This Saturday the 9th, Karina MileiGeneral Secretary of the Presidency, and Martin Menempresident of the Chamber of Deputieswill arrive in Corrientes to consolidate the party structure and advance its legal constitution to participate in the 2025 elections. Everyone will be attentive to what place they will give to Almirón, since it is indicated that he will be the candidate for governor with whom the radical president will face Gustavo Valdeswho will go for his re-election.
“He plays a phenomenal role and It is our main reference in Corrientes“, Menem said a few hours ago in an interview when asked about Almirón. In that same dialogue and about whether LLA will have a candidate to run for governor, he expressed: “we are going to have it, like in the entire country and we will work in alliances with those who coincide that this is the way.” Although he did not give a name, everything indicates that Almirón will be the anointed one.
50 years old and a lawyer graduated from a private university, Lisandro Almirón He was a constituent in 2007 in the Corrientes Constitutional Reformin 2017 he was a local delegate of the National Controlled Materials Agency (ANMAC) and was a councilor in the capital of Corrientes between 2021 and 2023, for the party Light Blue and White Union. In June 2023 he joined the libertarian ranks. In an interview this week he was asked if he would be a candidate for governor and he did not deny it. “I would like to finish this enormous race that involves traveling the province, to the last corner, looking for the best men and the best women to join,” he said.
In Santiago del Estero
“El Jefe” and Martín Menem set foot in Santiago on October 4 for the launch of LLA in that province. They were accompanied all the time by Thomas Figueroa, what weeks before had been elected president of the libertarian party due to the strong support of Menem and the sister of President Javier Milei, which favored an agreement between the internal currentsstill barely filmed.
Figueroa He is known in the world of Santiago politicsbecause it moves in that area since 1989when he landed in Congress with the help of his deceased father Jose Oscar Figueroaa banker who held a national senatorship until 1998, always accompanying the former president Carlos Saul Menem. Later, Figueroa Jr. served as an advisor to several senators, all Peronists, until Menem appointed him in December of last year. Parliamentary Secretarythe highest position to which an administrative employee can aspire.
From that place and due to his ties with the president of the Chamber of Deputies and “Lule” Menem, Undersecretary of Institutional Management and man of Karina’s closest confidenceFigueroa became someone of extreme confidence for the libertarian armed in his province, where he maintains a good relationship with the governor Gerardo Zamorapartner of Peronism and critic of the national government. There is so much fine tuning that the provincial representative of the LLA party, elected by Figueroa, Laura Godoysaid this week in an interview that “Zamora has a balanced, orderly province that has a lot to give.”
In August, Figueroa asked for leave from his position to dedicate himself fully to setting up the LLA in Santiago del Estero and everything indicates that he will be the candidate for governor of that space to confront Zamorism next year. Regarding the candidacy for governor of the libertarian president of Santiago, the representative Godoy admitted that is in campaign. “He comes from a traditional family, so he knows a lot about the interior and people are very excited. Little by little we are seeing the essential needs that the province has to work based on long-term projects,” he expressed.
Ámbito consulted a Zamora provincial deputy about the figure of Figueroa, whom he described as “a skilled leader who survived and today is a key part of the libertarians”. “It is almost certain that he will be the candidate for governor, what is not certain is that he will be a threat to the power of the Civic Front,” he said.
A Tucumán pass
In the last hours shook Tucumán politics the announcement by the local Libertad Avanza that it was adding the sugar industrialist to its space Jorge Rocchia Ferro, president of the Los Balkanes Group and owner of the sugar mills La Florida, Cruz Alta, and Aguilareswhich also produce bioethanol.
The decision was communicated after a meeting between the businessman and the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Nation, Lisandro Catalánin the Casa Rosada. In the official LLA statement it was indicated that “Catalán indicated that La Libertad Avanza seeks to integrate, in addition to a political framework, a business framework to project a productive and industrial future in the province. And this incorporation strengthens the positioning of La Libertad Avanza in Tucumanopening new perspectives for the local political scene”.
Rocchia Ferro is president of the Industrial Union of Tucumán and has a great impact on UNINOAthe strategic alliance of the industrial unions of Catamarca, Jujuy, La Rioja, Salta, Santiago del Estero and Tucumánspace from where his voice is habitually present. For this reason, LLA added someone who guarantees visibilitybut not a political structure but the resources to create their own space.
Source: Ambito
