The three senators from Córdoba voting in favor of the Bases Law – the first law that the Libertarian Government achieved – make up an image that fairly faithfully represents these first six months of Javier Milei’s management in the center of the country.
Without a doubt, he represents the vast majority of the 74 percent of Cordobans who voted for La Libertad Avanza and who largely continue to support the President.
It also accurately represents Cordobanism, that political logic that includes both ruling parties and opponents and that admits bitter confrontations within the limits of the province, but requires the same anti-Kirchnerist discourse inside and outside. It is this characteristic that – in a country cracked like never before – leaves most of the Córdoban leadership in the milléista photo.
But the reality is that the underlying ideas that Milei defends, his market fundamentalism and his disdain for any State intervention in society, are not representative of the vast majority of provincial political leaders, and even less so of the main ones.
Governor Martín Llaryora vindicates the role of the State where the market does not reach, citing the same words that Juan Schiaretti repeated for years, but also supporting all social programs, appealing to Bancor with countercyclical policies for the private sector and betting on public work.
Luis Juez was also a statist when he was in charge of the Municipality of Córdoba, and in the last provincial campaign – just a year ago – his main proposals aimed at more State: he promised more doctors in hospitals, more investment in public education and even the full restitution of the 82% mobile for Córdoban retirees.
What happens is that in the six months of the Milei era, Córdoba politics remained hidden. Hidden. Afraid to say what she thinks because surveys say that at this moment just over half of Cordobans prefer to listen to something else.
In Córdoba, as in Rome
That is why the first step that Cardinal Ángel Rossi took yesterday when he brought together the most important politicians of Córdoba and warned – in line with the signals that come from Rome and that are replicated in all the churches of the country – about the meaning of the ideas that are promoted and the decisions that are made by the Nation.
With a call to put the human being and not the market “at the center of politics and policies,” Rossi invited the main leaders to reflect, including Llaryora, Daniel Passerini, Judge and Rodrigo de Loredo. On Wednesday he will say the same thing at a mass in Villa Angelelli, which will end with an even more forceful sign: a popular pot.
From the Civic Center, Llaryora’s entourage confirms that Cordoban Peronism will once again support the national Government in Deputies during the review of the Base Law. However, they emphasize that that is as far as the alignment goes: after 25 years in power, it is clear that the political project of Córdoba Peronism has nothing to do with libertarian ideas. The governor intends to accelerate a national incursion by Schiaretti, for the creation of a centrist current when the emergence of Together for Change is completed.
With this purpose, ideas emerge from the Llaryorist power plant such as making Schiaretti a candidate for deputy for the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, to give him national visibility and facilitate the assembly of a new federal space. All Peronism talks about this, except Schiaretti: no one has yet officially communicated the idea to him, because everyone imagines his response.
Behind the doors of the Honeycomb, meanwhile, criticism is multiplying due to the impact of the national mega adjustment on all fronts and they repeat that in the 94% reduction on non-automatic resources for Córdoba, not only were the resources for the Retirement Fund eliminated. , but also funds that went to addiction treatment, oncological drugs or disability programs. Not to mention the canteens, who never received food again or the distribution of milk that was about to expire, which required a court order to be carried out.
Beyond the criticism, in recent weeks the Nation managed to articulate a more efficient channel for negotiation with the provinces. The arrival of Guillermo Francos to the Chief of Staff is celebrated in Córdoba as much as the agreement that he managed to unblock so that the road works that the Nation had begun would not be paralyzed for years. The hour and a half that Llaryora had with Minister Luis Caputo is an evident sign that the Nation had to open several other doors to achieve the Base Law. The relationship begins to have a tone more similar to what Llaryora intended than what Milei had imposed at the beginning.
The President’s relationship with the rest of Córdoba politics is an enigma. He has a personal relationship with Juez, and De Loredo offers strong signs of collaboration with La Libertad Avanza, but Together for Change remains cohesive only because of its role in opposition to Llaryora. Everything else is differences and mutual distrust and no one yet imagines what it will become when the coalition finishes imploding at the national level.
For all that is missing. Córdoba politics today begins the countdown to the most important election of the year: next Sunday Río Cuarto elects mayor and Peronism faces a scenario that still seems unreal to many. Adriana Nazario did not accept an agreement with the current mayor, Juan Manuel Llamosas, and she managed to extremely complicate an election that the provincial ruling party considered won and that it now fears losing at the hands of the radical Gonzalo Parodi.
Llaryora added Schiaretti to the campaign, went full throttle – there is a lot of criticism from the opposition for clientelistic practices – and tries to repeat in Río Cuarto the feat of Córdoba Capital, where everything indicated that De Loredo won by 15 points and Passerini won by eight. Juez and De Loredo are excited to celebrate on Sunday despite not having participated in the campaign. Nazario does not give up his hopes until the votes are counted.
