The Radical Civic Union (UCR) is experiencing one of the most complex moments since the return of democracy a fragmented presence in Congress and with defeats in districts historically identified with the Centennial.
The UCR currently governs five provinces; Santa Fe (Maximiliano Pullaro), Corrientes (Juan Pablo Valdés), Mendoza (Alfredo Cornejo), Jujuy (Carlos Sadir) and Chaco (Leandro Zdero). Each governor has his own game and in the last election Cornejo and Zdero were allied with La Libertad Avanza while the remaining three were part of the United Provinces.
In these elections, radicalism celebrated in Corrientes with the seal of the United Provinces and in Mendoza and Chaco, albeit in alliance with La Libertad Avanza leaves open the debate about the advantages and disadvantages of an agreement with the governing party.
However, in MPs, cornejismo was left with the official brand of the UCR and Pamela Verasay He won the battle for the chairmanship of the bank against Karina Banfi, who eventually put together a monobloc.
However, what is causing tension and uncertainty is the fact that radicalism has increased from more than 40 MPs at the time of Together for Change, with Mario Negri as head of the Interbloc, to just 40 MPs 6 legislators.
The fact is that at the beginning of Javier Milei’s term, radicalism had a bloc of 33, but internal divisions caused the space then commanded by Rodrigo de Loredo to split into four parts: the official UCR, Democracia para Siempre, the Interior League and the Unidos monobloc.
After the last elections in October and before December 10, the UCR had 12 deputies, but 5 went to the United Provinces and Banfi created its own space.
In addition, the three MPs from the Interior League bloc or popularly known as Radicals in Wigs have joined the ranks of the ruling party. In order to stop the bleeding and not lose power in the House of Commons, Verasay entered into an agreement with the PRO to fight for status as the third force of the United Provinces. Both armed forces have 22 representatives each.
In the Senate, where radicalism lost three seats in October and retained ten representatives. In this chamber, the UCR, under the command of Eduardo Vischi from Corrientes, was able to maintain unity, as was the case in the first two years of the Libertarian government.
A part of radicalism is confident that as Kirchnerism loses weight in the political system, a centrist variant, perhaps represented by the UCR, will grow. However, they warn that this will be possible provided the economy grows and the middle class recovers.
Undoubtedly, the election of the young Leonel Chiarella will not be a magical solution to reorganize the centenary, but the different sectors agreed that it is a way out of the decision of the radical personalities who were not ready to take on the responsibility of running the space.
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