A survey shows that UCR loses votes if it joins LLA in Córdoba.

Life in politics can be fleeting or perpetual, depending on the intentions, capabilities, and possibilities of each political actor. There are multiple examples that demonstrate each of these two periods of durability in the public sphere. Generally, as President Milei has stated on various occasions, the politician seeks to live eternally at the expense of the average citizen.

Many times, to achieve this goal, the politician doesn't hesitate to engage in unscrupulous strategies that lead to the total loss of various values: integrity, morality, defense of ideas, loyalty to a party and to the electorate, upholding one's word, etc.

In this sense, the realization of this immoral transformation occurs or accelerates when electoral contests begin to approach on the political calendar, intensifying this process when public offices (or their renewal) are at stake. On many occasions, even, the forced establishment of electoral alliances between ideologically dissimilar parties is pursued to achieve a good result at the polls.

The case of De Loredo

After all, the politician only thinks about emerging victorious in the elections. A particular case that reflects all these questionable slogans is that of Rodrigo De Loredo. Of radical genesis, this ambitious legislator was able to pave his way to political success through controversial maneuvers and ways of proceeding.

In his history, sponsored by his father-in-law Oscar Aguad (whom he would betray years later to try not to lose his own public position as president of ARSAT, forever destroying the close relationship he had with his father-in-law, in a miserable attempt to undermine him), De Loredo managed to overcome various obstacles through disloyal shortcuts that facilitated his rise to power.

Not far from it, it was thanks to the personal relationship with his father-in-law that he was able to avoid the traditional postponement of radicalism so that its own political cadres (generally the youngest in the party) could access public positions: contrary to this "custom" that the white berets have, in 2011 a young Rodrigo De Loredo gained a seat in the Córdoba Legislature, at just 31 years old. Quite a novelty for the centennial party in terms of its permissiveness with its own to achieve an early elective position.

By 2019, De Loredo had to settle for being elected as a Councilor of the City of Córdoba (a position he resigned, dishonoring the citizen mandate for which he was elected) due to the failure in the realization of another ambitious political project for that same year: to be the mayor of said city.

The financing for that campaign left him literally in ruins, owing millions in promised advertising to local media that acted as his propaganda mechanisms. This debt would be settled in 2021, with money that Emiliano Yacobitti contributed for his campaign as a candidate for National Deputy for Juntos por el Cambio.

It should be remembered that De Loredo would later betray his patron by cultivating a close relationship with former President Macri, with whom Yacobitti has a terrible relationship.

Today, the radical legislator faces the situation of seeking the renewal of his seat in Congress. This scenario presents itself to him in a decadent moment for radicalism in terms of voting intention: on average (according to most surveys), only 5% of the electorate would be willing to support the centennial party at the national level.

Conscious of this electoral inanition on the part of his own party, De Loredo has conveniently established a certain closeness with the national government since last year, willing to "build bridges" (collaborating, strategically and for his own benefit, with some policies and parliamentary projects promoted by La Libertad Avanza) that ensure the realization of a surreal evident intention, which he finds increasingly difficult to conceal: the establishment of an electoral alliance between La Libertad Avanza and the UCR, with him heading the list of candidates for National Deputies of the province of Córdoba.

This is the dream scenario for De Loredo to avoid being condemned to political ostracism, having to resign from competing solely under his party's banner to avoid the shame of obtaining an inevitable fourth place in his own province, especially considering his desire to be a gubernatorial candidate in 2027.

A harsh defeat, like the one that inevitably awaits him, would reduce his strength to ashes to present a competitive governmental formula to try to dethrone Peronism in the Córdoba Executive.

Precisely this context of inevitable defeat is what terrifies him the most and that is why his unilateral intention is to formalize a forced electoral alliance with La Libertad Avanza, arrogating despotically the representativeness of Córdoba's radicalism and using the banner as an object of his property, always to the detriment of the objectives of other local party leaders of weight.

However, this opportunist and future former national deputy absurdly trusts in the manifestation of a reality that allows him to achieve his desire: a voice off the record confessed to this medium that De Loredo hopes to capitalize on a potential misstep of the national government and bets on the materialization of adverse and negative results for the government in the next 45 days, so that from La Libertad Avanza they approach him to beg him to head the list of candidates for national deputies for the province of Córdoba, trusting that his mere image can guarantee victory.

Undoubtedly, his level of desperation can be evidenced, leading him to fantasize about scenarios with no possibility of occurrence. Furthermore, he completely ignores the aversion that the entire libertarian electorate has to formalizing an alliance with a party whose ideology is at the antipodes of the values and philosophy promoted by La Libertad Avanza.

In this sense, the government is not willing to betray its electorate for the sake of gaining a couple of points that radicalism can contribute in the October elections, whose electoral participation will be only symbolic, testimonial, and anecdotal.

Likewise, the UCR in Córdoba intends to present pure candidates, coming only from the same party. They are not willing to share a ballot with candidates from a totally dissimilar and heterogeneous political space, and most of Córdoba's radical electorate expresses exactly the same.

They are not compatible spaces that can coexist harmoniously within the same political project, a consideration that De Loredo ignores in his eagerness not to see his political career ended, at the expense of even dynamiting his own party.

The legislator ignores the values of the government, which doesn't seek to build a power project, but the transformation of a devastated country, partly due to the failure of some radical governments that he himself vindicates.

Consequently, in the most anti-Kirchnerist province in the country, the contribution of radicalism to La Libertad Avanza is practically nonexistent, mainly in terms of electoral flow.

Likewise, De Loredo's contribution is also completely null, beyond being able to contribute only principles that La Libertad Avanza emphatically condemns, such as betrayal, opportunism, disloyalty, advantage-seeking, lying, lack of upholding one's word, greed for power, failure to fulfill previously assumed promises and commitments, or personalistic leadership.

However, the soon-to-be unemployed legislator will insist to the last consequences on establishing an electoral alliance that avoids his early retirement, but his intention will remain a mere memory of a desperate and regrettable political strategy that, fortunately, never materialized.

Thus, De Loredo is an actor from the past seeking to survive in a current movie, and the UCR represents just a sigil more than a political party with innovative ideas that contribute to positively changing the country's reality.