Peronist senators Guillermo Andrada (Catamarca), Carolina Moisés (Jujuy) and Sandra Mendoza (Tucumán) have left the main opposition interbloc headed by José Mayans (Formosa) due to internal differences.
The changes are a result not only of Mayan’s leadership but because of agenda imposed by ex-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her allies, congressional sources said in remarks reported by the Noticias Argentinas news agency.
Andrada, Moisés and Mendoza belong to the Convicción Federal caucus together with its chief Fernando Salino (San Luis) and Fernando Rejal (La Rioja). The latter duo are to remain within the interbloc headed by Mayans for several years now although the Formosa senator lost his powers of leadership a while back with an ever clearer inclination towards the agenda of San José 1111.
Nevertheless, the underlying questions stem in part from individual interests. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the jailed former president who chairs the Partido Justicialista at national level, has launched a series of provincial trusteeships, among them, Jujuy, where Moisés maintains a fierce dispute with the organisation responding to the Kirchners.
These three senators all answer to northern provincial governors aligned with President Javier Milei: Raúl Jalil (Catamarca), Osvaldo Jaldo (Tucumán) and Gustavo Sáenz (Salta). This trio is key to the new scheme of alliances constructed by the Casa Rosada to approve the labour reform and other bills.
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