Despite the strong cracking of Freedom Advances (LLA) In Congress, Karina Milei is advancing steadily in her armed exclusion and is very close to bringing together the five national parties what do you need for register the seal at the national level. Without giving credit to the beaten leaders they leave out in the districts, in the Casa Rosada they believe that In July they will have the papers to formalize registration at the national level that will serve as a platform for the next legislative elections.
The general secretary already has the mark on The Rioja, where Martín Menem leads; presented the match in CABA with Juan Pablo Scalese; last week the structure was secured in Jump from the hand of Alfredo Olmedo; and The one that comes will advance before the electoral justice of Santa Fe with Romina Diez and in Black river with Lorena Villaverde. Meanwhile, she advances Land of Fire and in Mendoza.
The sentence of the National Electoral Chamber (CNE) in Cordova will be key. There, the group of dissident libertarians led by representative Celeste Ponce appealed the use of the coalition seal for a party led by Karina Milei’s bishop, Gabriel Bornoroni, the brand new block leader of the libertarian national deputies who won the argument in local justice and now awaits the national ruling. If favorable, this document would represent a key endorsement to establish a precedent that would pave the way in the rest of the districts and, by extension, in the Nation.
In Santa Fe, the official empowers Romina Diez, one of the few deputies he trusted, who had an alliance with the PRO leader Federico Angelini, but he left to join the libertarian ranks. She was very active during the 2023 campaign, she used to be seen on stage during Javier Milei’s events and she was in charge of receiving Karina in the city. The woman from Rosario disputes power with the provincial legislator and president of the local Libertarian Party, Silvia Malfesi and has a distant relationship with the deputy Rocío Bonacci, the podiatrist from Funes who became known when she presented a project to repeal the abortion law that was later disavowed by the Casa Rosada (not due to lack of agreement on the content, but because they did not consider it to be the appropriate political moment) .
Río Negro is one of the first districts where they tried to register the LLA party, in February. But next week, Karina plans to travel to support the local leader Cesar Dominguez, who was part of the Justicialist Party (PJ) and disaffiliated this year to turn to the “ideas of freedom” with his First Río Negro force; and the businesswoman Lorena Villaverde, who started with Ramiro Marra but built a close relationship with Karina, was awarded the presidency of the relevant Energy Commission of the Lower House and was in each delegation of legislators who visited the bunker, during the campaign, and the House Rosada since the administration began.
Another imminent stop on the official’s calendar is Mendoza, perhaps the most conflictive district. There Karina supports the deputy Lourdes Arrieta and confronts the leader Alejandro Gustavo Barraza, that does not have the endorsement of “the Boss” and also claims the name of the space for its group. For now, on Monday the Official Gazette reported that the federal judge with electoral jurisdiction in Mendoza, Pablo Quiros, A process of recognition of the party in this district began, with Arrieta as head of the Promotion Board, followed by lawyer David Miguel Litvinchuk, a sign in favor of the general secretary.
Meanwhile, in Tierra del Fuego the libertarians began the process of recognition of their legal-political personality in February, led by legislator Agustín Coto, who had flirted with the possibility of running as a candidate for governor but backed out in a context of differences with local spaces. Finally, Milei supported the pastor’s candidacy Andrea Almirón de Pauli, who finished in third place behind Héctor Stefani, from the PRO, and the radical Kirchnerist Gustavo Melella, who achieved re-election. A frequent visitor to the bunkers of the 2023 race, Coto was able to secure a seat in the Legislature and the trust of Karina Milei, who invited him to the party’s presentation event in the city of Buenos Aires and now supports him as a local reference.
The first to register the party was the current president of the Chamber of Deputies, Menem, in his province of origin, La Rioja, in 2021, with the help of his cousin, Eduardo “Lule” Menem. Today, Lule advises Karina and operates on her behalf, in tandem with the vice head of the Ministry of the Interior, Lisandro Catalán, which works under the orbit of Guillermo Francos and is mainly responsible for territorial armed forces; with the lawyer Santiago Viola, that bustles daily in the hallways of the first floor of the Government House, between the offices of the General Secretariat of Karina and that of Lule; and with the consultant Santiago Caputo.
The objective of Milei’s sister is to create her own force without dependencies on actors that they consider secondary in the provinces that, however, “lent” them their respective legal structures at the beginning of Javier Milei’s proselytizing path. But the main reason is to build our own strength to consolidate ourselves in the face of PRO’s offers.
On that particular point there are internal differences. Several important libertarians believe that they will inevitably have to move towards a pact with Mauricio Macri’s party, simply because they do not have enough political cadres to deploy as they wish. Furthermore, they do not want to face new scandals like those that “appeared” to them for embracing unknown leaders even by the leaders themselves in desperation to fill boxes. “Just because it’s new doesn’t mean it’s good,” said a senior national official who works in territorial armed forces and believes that an alliance with PRO should be forged “naturally.”
In any case, even those most inclined to join the yellow allies in the next elections warn that the discussion should start from the basis that the libertarians, as they won the Presidency, have the greatest decision-making power in the negotiation of places in the lists, and a veto to occupy positions in the Government, as until now.
