The scandal in the Chamber of Deputies left open wounds between the PRO and the Government of Javier Milei. After the session in which La Libertad Avanza agreed with Kirchnerism on the distribution of positions in the General Auditor’s Office of the Nation (AGN), the Macri administration decided to make a change in its parliamentary and political strategy against the ruling party. The first decision was clear: prosecute what happened.
As confirmed by the PRO itself, the bloc is preparing a complaint against the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Martín Menem, for the mechanism used to advance the appointments. The Macri administration considers that there were irregularities in the session and seeks for Justice to review what was done, in a movement that marks a breaking point in the relationship with La Libertad Avanza.
But judicialization is only the first step. In the PRO they admit that the link with Milei enters a cooling stage. The dominant feeling among the yellow leaders is that of having been mistreated and, above all, deceived by an ruling party that, while demanding support, closed agreements with Kirchnerism behind the backs of its parliamentary allies.
In this context, the PRO also decided to modify its behavior in Congress. There will no longer be automatic help to guarantee a quorum or systematic support for Government projects. From now on, support—if it exists—will be vote by vote, without prior commitment or logic of a stable alliance.
Furthermore, Macrismo anticipates that it will begin to distance itself on those issues in which it does not coincide with the libertarian agenda. The decision implies recovering political autonomy and marking public differences in sensitive debates, leaving behind the role of reliable partner that it held during much of the first stretch of Milei’s management.
The episode in Deputies not only strained the parliamentary relationship, but also opened a new stage in the link between the PRO and the Casa Rosada. With a judicial complaint underway, conditional support and a de facto blurred alliance, Macrismo is beginning to recalculate its strategy against a Government that it no longer considers a predictable ally.
