Rodrigo De Loredo, on the internal affairs in the UCR: “We have to be supporters of change”

The president of the block of deputies of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), Rodrigo De Loredo, He sent a message to the party’s internal affairs and targeted the party’s president, Martin Lousteau, by stating that if there are expressions that “are exploring some electoral agreement with Kirchnerism, they should distance themselves from radicalism.” And he referred to the role of the party: “We have to be the officials of change”

“Radicalism has an adversary and a cultural counterpart, which is everything that represents the culture of Peronism, and particularly Kirchnerism,” he said in statements to the program “If it happens, it happens,” hosted by Ignacio Ortelli on Radio Rivadavia, after the agreement of Lousteau with Kirchnerism to lead the Bicameral Intelligence Commission.

Along the same lines, he added: “It would be a total madness and delirium for the radicalism of the City of Buenos Aires. If anyone is exploring some kind of electoral agreement with those of us who came to change, they are within their rights, but stay away from radicalism. because it is something that overwhelms people and causes great damage to their identity.”

While he avoided personalizing the fight against Lousteau, He said he believes that “He acts with intellectual honesty, but is erratic in the direction he gives to the leadership of the party, which exceeds the people and the City of Buenos Aires.”

Rodrigo De Loredo questioned the “extreme reactions” within the UCR

“It’s not something that can happen in any district. The identity of radicalism may have its characteristics according to regional realities, but there are common vectors”he said about a potential electoral alliance with the Kirchnerism, and he stressed: “We are within the agenda of change, you may like one more, another, reasonable, heterodox, orthodox, but We have to be the officials of change“.

Likewise, the deputy He also questioned the radical expression that met with President Javier Mileiwas photographed at Casa Rosada and endorsed the presidential veto of the pension update law. “I did not take it well and I worked so that this would not happen. “I do not agree at all with these extreme reactions that fall into contradictions,” he said.

“What happens particularly to radicalism is that it is a party with an identity of reasonableness, it is neither at one extreme nor the other, and the showcase it builds is the pivot block. The permanent changes of votes that Peronism has with its governors, the block of Pichetto, he PRO, either ALL, “All these problems that are happening do not change in the sense of a solution. Our problems end up tipping the scales and acquire a higher perspective,” he explained in this regard.

For his part, he defined Two worldviews at the UCR that are in tension: “A ultra opposition, with a porteño or AMBA morphology, and has an electoral explanation, which gives the paradox that it does not govern, it governs little or nothing, and Another look at a majority radicalism that has a more productive profileeconomic, an absolute and total acceptance of the horizon of fiscal balance because he governs, he has 5 governors and 170 radical mayors, that makes up the two perspectives”-

“The leadership of the Radical Party does not know how to manage them. It attacks them, exposes them and exposes their weaknesses,” he criticized and predicted that they will have to make a decision and accept district realities in their electoral strategies.

De Loredo supported the privatization of Aerolíneas Argentinas and questioned the PRO

In another part of the interview with the program Si Pasa, Pasa, De Loredo raised similarities and some differences with the government of Javier Milei, to which he attributed the need to fight with Congress to improve the image.

He also spoke in favor of privatization of Argentine Airlines. “As it exhibits a lack of equipment and poor management, it is not able to do it in the time it should do so, but I agree with its privatization“They would have my support and I would try to persuade the majority of the radicals,” he said.

The legislator He referred to the criticism of the head of the PRO bloc, Cristian Ritondowho raised questions about his space during the session that accompanied the presidential veto of the retirement update. “I didn’t understand what his point was.. He gave us lessons on block unification and I see that in the Senate they vote differently than in the House of Representatives.and in the same session, Alvaro Gonzalez voted against what the president of the PRO voted. I thought it was imprudent and I did not understand what he was referring to,” he said.

Finally, he assured that he will be present today, when the president explains the 2025 Budget in Congress, and although he questioned the “violent and bullying” communication dynamic, he admitted that it is efficient. “This budget presentation show has economic and political consequences that benefit the government,” he concluded.