Schiaretti and Llaryora recruit Radicals in an attempt to prevent the electoral defeat

Schiaretti tried to downplay the rupture caused by Natalia de la Sota, but her candidacy exposes the fragility of Córdoba's Peronism. The ruling party fears that Natalia de la Sota will subtract thousands of votes and is therefore seeking any alliance that might conceal that loss. The strategy aims to add leaders regardless of ideological distinction to narrow an ever-widening gap with La Libertad Avanza.

At El Panal, they know that each point equals thousands of votes and that the congresswoman could dismantle their electoral strategy. For this reason, Llaryora's leadership authorized an operation to incorporate municipal leaders and representatives of historically rival parties. This maneuver reflects a Córdoba Peronism that appears directionless and is constrained by the imminent defeat in October.

The photo with more than a hundred radical mayors at an event led by Schiaretti exposed the magnitude of that desperate search. There, Peronism made it clear that the objective is to accumulate political volume even at the cost of diluting historic party boundaries. The move seeks to conceal its own weaknesses and contain the hemorrhage opened by the candidacy of the former governor's daughter.

Radicalism reduced to a caboose

Radicalism, unable to maintain its own competitiveness, chose to align itself unreservedly behind Córdoba's Peronism. The mayors who showed themselves to be servile with Schiaretti did so knowing that the UCR can't secure a seat on its own in October. The radical territorial structure remained as the party's only asset, now used as a bargaining chip.

The "boina blanca" leadership meekly accepted the leadership of Schiaretti and Llaryora, assuming a subordinate role in the Cordobesismo scheme. The UCR's internal dispute, with Mestre facing Ferrer and De Loredo absent, left the party weakened and without an electoral horizon. That weakness explains the servile surrender of the radical mayors to the Peronist coalition.

Llaryora's intention is for these radicals to add at least five points and partially offset the congresswoman's defection. Translated, that would be about 90,000 votes which, at best, could conceal the hemorrhage but not change the trend. Thus, radicalism is reduced to a label that only serves to "fatten" a Peronism that is heading toward another inevitable defeat.