News of ucr

What’s in a name?

17-01-2026 06:33 Radicalism prides itself on being an inflexible “ethic” which “breaks up rather than bend” in contrast to the Peronism veering wildly.

POLITICS

UCR enters a critical moment with the party’s future at stake

24-11-2025 21:27 UCR National Committee will be renewing its leadership next month. Tensions reflects level of infighting among different provincial tribes, torn between those governors maintaining a good relationship with the Casa Rosada and those who seek to keep their distance.

by Ezequiel Spillman

ELECTIONS 2025: BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE

Election analysis: Peronism scores wins in districts for first time in 20 years

10-09-2025 13:44 Fuerza Patria finished top in the Second and Fourth Sections of Buenos Aires Province; La Libertad Avanza claimed victory in only two, the Fifth, centred on Mar del Plata, and the Sixth, with Bahía Blanca the main city.

ELECTION 2025: ANALYSIS

Argentina’s divided opposition may be Milei’s greatest asset

04-09-2025 07:00 Milei’s greatest advantage is not his economic programme or ideological crusade, but the incoherence of those who oppose him.

ELECTIONS 2025: ANALYSIS

Analysts give take on electoral slates for October election

23-08-2025 06:46 La Libertad Avanza’s hegemonic project, a Peronist survival bid and an accepted secondary role for PRO. Milei versus Kirchnerism polarisation promises to be the dominant theme of the campaign heading into October.

by Giselle Leclercq

CAMPAIGN COMMENTS

Anatomy of a macrocephalic

19-07-2025 18:53 While the last census of 2022 showed that Argentina’s population had risen some 15% since the Bicentenary count of 2010, the population of Greater Buenos Aires only rose 9%.

by Michael Soltys

ELECTIONS 2025

Chaco elections: LLA–UCR pact delivers over divided Peronists

12-05-2025 12:03 President Milei’s party joined forces with the UCR to defeat Jorge Capitanich and divided Peronists; Lowest turnout in northern province since 1983.

Campaign comments

First day of the rest of the year

19-04-2025 06:00 Economists have hailed the exit from the cepo as a milestone but this columnist hesitates to consider it an electoral game-changer – there is both too much and too little time for that.

by Michael Soltys

POLITICS: MIDTERMS 2025

Who’s who: The candidates heading lists for Buenos Aires City midterms

30-03-2025 10:01 Main candidates are already defined for the Buenos Aires City midterms in May – Silvia Lospennato, Leandro Santoro, Manuel Adorni, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and Ramiro Marra are the names that head the highest-polling options.

POLITICS: MIDTERMS 2025

City elections: Candidate Adorni, Marra to run, Lospennato emerges

28-03-2025 13:52 Focus on the countdown to candidate list registrations for the upcoming May 18 elections for the Buenos Aires City legislature.

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

Untidily Crumbling Radicals

28-09-2024 06:05 The Unión Cívica Radical crisis perhaps stems from standing or falling from being the men in the middle in many senses – representing a middle class facing extinction and a middle ground squeezed out by polarisation.

by Michael Soltys

Congress & Politics

Milei clashes with Senate over pensions, vows to veto increase

23-08-2024 14:27 President Javier Milei announced Friday he will veto pension increases approved by the Senate the previous day, branding those who voted for the boost "fiscal degenerates."

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Elisa Carrió: ‘Friends say to me please don’t speak out – no, I won’t be complicit’

11-05-2024 06:48 Veteran politician and founder of the Coalición Cívica-ARI on President Javier Milei, why the middle class must react to austerity and why she wants a comeback in Congress.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Martín Lousteau: ‘I’m not afraid of leaders with an authoritarian streak’

06-04-2024 06:09 Senator and UCR chair on why the mega DNU emergency decree was unconstitutional, President Milei’s economic plan and Radical renewal.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

News of ucr

What’s in a name?

UCR enters a critical moment with the party’s future at stake

Election analysis: Peronism scores wins in districts for first time in 20 years

Argentina’s divided opposition may be Milei’s greatest asset

Analysts give take on electoral slates for October election

Anatomy of a macrocephalic

Chaco elections: LLA–UCR pact delivers over divided Peronists

First day of the rest of the year

Who’s who: The candidates heading lists for Buenos Aires City midterms

City elections: Candidate Adorni, Marra to run, Lospennato emerges

Untidily Crumbling Radicals

Milei clashes with Senate over pensions, vows to veto increase

Elisa Carrió: ‘Friends say to me please don’t speak out – no, I won’t be complicit’

Martín Lousteau: ‘I’m not afraid of leaders with an authoritarian streak’

Milei ally under pressure over alleged overpricing at nuclear plants

Lured by 38% rates, carry-trade investors pile into Milei’s peso

Overpricing claims, removal of officials poses questions for Milei ally Reidel

JPMorgan courts Argentina by readily refilling stash of dollars

Rains ease fires in Patagonia, but risk of flare-ups remains

“La empresa india que ganó la licitación en Vaca Muerta factura un décimo de lo que factura Techint”

"Parecés Miss Mundo": una diputada del PRO se cruzó con el abogado de la CGT por la reforma laboral

Llegó a Netflix la cuarta temporada de Bridgerton: cuántos capítulos son y cuándo se estrena la segunda parte

La Justicia federal rechazó al pedido de suspensión del DNU que amplía las facultades de la SIDE

Kicillof convocó a sus intendentes para este jueves, mientras crece la tensión con La Cámpora por la lista del PJ bonaerense