With unit list, the Radical Civic Union (UCR) of Cordoba avoided going to the polls to decide its leadership and also the judicialization of the process. The agreement had as protagonists the members of Generation X, led by national deputy Rodrigo de Loredo, and More Radicalism, led by Ramón Mestreformer mayor of the provincial capital. The minority space was left out of the understanding Cordoba with Everyone, which is referenced in the current Vice Governor Myrian Prunottowho still has a radical membership card. With this step, the deloderista sector believes it has climbed another step on the long ladder towards the candidacy for governor in 2027.
The merger was accelerated last week, after the decision of federal judge Alejandro Sánchez Freytes to grant a precautionary measure requested by Mestre that suspended the electoral schedule. The action of the Mestrismo was in response to the resolution of the party’s Electoral Board to have lowered the number of candidates. More Radicalism and Córdoba for Everyone of the electoral process due to procedural defects. Only the Generation X list, which promoted the candidacy of Marcos Ferrer, mayor of Rio Terceroto preside over provincial radicalism. Faced with this, the mestrismo went to Justice.
The understanding was brewed over the weekend and after the white smoke between From Loredo and Mestrewhich the first made public on his X account, Ferrer will be at the head of the UCR in Córdoba and the first vice presidency will be occupied by the Mestrista Mariana Giorgetti, councilor of Río CuartoThe former mayor retained the leadership of the capital committee for his sector and parity was agreed in the Provincial Congress, whose presidency will be for Facundo Cortés Olmedo, a close confidant of Mestre. The delegates to the National Committee will be Mestre, the national deputy Soledad Carrizo; the mayor of Villa Nueva, Ignacio Tagni; the councilor Elisa Caffaratti and the former legislator Javier Bee Sellares.
Thus, all that remains is the call from the Electoral Court to seal the alliance. It is also expected that, unless there are last-minute changes, the representatives of Cordoba with Everyone make dissenting proposals that would translate into going to the polls only in the Department of Colón, where the Deloredistas and Mestristas would face the Prunottismo, with a predictable result.
What is coming suggests that De Loredo is beginning to align his interests in the search for the biggest trophy, which is his candidacy for governor in 2027with a consolidated UCR and with territorial presence to head a list, in the face of a hypothetical alliance with the space of the Senator Luis Juezwho last year was defeated for the third time by the Peronist party of Córdoba in his attempt to reach the Government House of La Docta. “Rodrigo does not hide these intentions among those closest to him but he knows that the road is long,” he admitted to Scope a Deloredo provincial legislator consulted.
This Wednesday the 28th, without going any further, within the framework of its strategy to generate consensus around it, From Loredo He received in his office the mayors of Río Cuarto, Juárez Celman, Roque Sáenz Peña, Unión, Marcos Juárez, Calamuchita, Ischilín, General San Martín and General Roca. Later, he managed to have the municipal leaders received by the Chief of Staff, Guillermo Francos, and the vice chief, Lisandro Catalán, who listened to their concerns.
In any case, the most important season that awaits radicalism in the coming months is the 2025 national legislative election, in which De Loredo is seeking the renewal of her seat in the House of Representatives, as are her radical peers Soledad Carrizo and Gabriela Brouwer de Koning.
Collateral damage
The irreversible collateral damage of the radical internal, which favors the ruling party, was the Breakup of the Together for Change (JxC) bloc in the Unicameralbecause the white beret parliamentarians Dante Rossi and Sebastián Peralta –refractory to the alliance sealed by the party leadership- stepped aside and formed the Construyendo Córdoba bloc.
In this way, the official We do United for Córdoba Governor Martín Llaryora has held the majority since last week. The parity between the ruling party and the opposition was narrow in parliament because out of 70 members, Peronism has 34, so the split was bad news for JxC.
Source: Ambito
