On January 22, the head of the UCR, Martín Lousteau, decided to reappear on stage. It was through a tweet: a criticism of the president. But to find an previous media participation, you have to go back to 2024. His absence makes noise. And when the cat is not, the mice dance.
Radicalism is in save who can. A group of leaders already agreed with freedom, another believes that an electoral coalition is necessary so as not to be swept from Congress and the third faction, among which Lousteau is, he considers that, by party tradition, they must be strong opponents of the management liberal. Too many options and a stormy future.
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For the UCR it is a key choice, the mid -term. 23 of its 32 benches renew in the Chamber of Deputies and 4 of 13 in the Senate. What can happen this 2025? Nor the most optimistic considers it possible to keep the seats: the centenary party is in the retraction stage.
From the support of the Veto de Milei of the University Financing Law, a sensitive issue for the party, the radicals “with wig” were born. A faction that approached the ruling party and proposes to cling to the bank under the protection of Casa Rosada. In the middle are those who consider that a coalition with the government is the best exit for this year: the governor Alfredo Cornejo It is the maximum reference of this thesis. “In Mendoza, like President Milei, we inherit from Kirchnerism a destroyed, disorderly and indebted government,” he wrote At the close of this edition to be related, once again, with freedom progresses.
Then there are those who believe that the only place that radicalism has is opposition. There they meet Martín Lousteau and Facundo Manes. Although they have plenty of differences, they were aligned in criticism of Milei. But from the government they put them in check: for their furious crosses with the president, they accuse them of Kirchnerists. A skilled maneuver.
The problem is what place the opponents find, in an election where the ruling party seeks to polarize with Peronism: in that strategy, The pro and the UCR are drifting. “That’s why their springboard and ours are full,” argues a radical leader.
The opposition radicals ask for calm. They ensure that there will be news in February about an assembly of coalition that will respect the values of the party. It will then be the time of the reappearance of Lousteau. The problem is how many radicals will be then.
