Buenos Aires, November 19, 2025 – Total News Agency-TNA – The officialist bloc La Libertad Avanza (LLA) made a key parliamentary move this Wednesday by incorporating three legislators from the Liga del Interior. This will allow its bloc to grow to 91 deputies and place it just one seat away from snatching the first minority from Peronism in the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation.
The new members of the libertarian bloc are deputies Luis Picat, José Tournier, and Mariano Campero, former members of the UCR who formed the Liga del Interior's bloc and had maintained an inter-bloc alliance with LLA until now.
However, that space faces different focal points of tension, including the possibility that the governor of Catamarca, Raúl Jalil, forms his own provincial bloc with the four deputies who respond to his mandate.
Although it maintains the first minority, its margin is reduced and exposes its capacity to react to movements from the officialism. Likewise, the governor of Santiago del Estero, Gerardo Zamora, has seven legislators who could redefine their parliamentary alignment.
Gabriel Bornoroni, president of the bloc, stated through his social networks: "We continue to add lions to approve the laws that are needed."
Negotiations with other deputies who are projected to join—for example, former PRO deputy Verónica Razzini and deputy Alejandro Bongiovanni—are ongoing, and the decision will depend on timing, political compensations, and the officialism's ability to maintain internal cohesion.
In this new parliamentary map, the tension between blocs moves beyond the number of seats: it acquires a strategic character around the control of committees, the reform agenda, and pending legislation.
With its adhesion, the officialist bloc adds political muscle at a time when the negotiation of the national budget for 2026 is advancing and the Government is pushing for structural reforms.
From the LLA's parliamentary leadership, it was pointed out that the incorporation of these legislators represents "a bet to expand the reformist agenda" and celebrated the fact as a firm step towards a Congress more aligned with the Executive Branch.
The projection is that in December, when the new deputies take office and the presidencies of the blocs are reorganized, the parliamentary arithmetic will be tighter, and the Government could be closer than ever to having real control of the chamber.
Likewise, they demonstrate that the Government bloc seeks to ensure a more stable governance scenario, with less dependence on circumstantial alliances and a greater capacity to drive its own legislative agenda.
Nevertheless, sources consulted warn that the path to the first minority is not yet concluded. The integration of the three deputies also reinforces LLA's strategy of diversifying its territorial representation—Picat for Córdoba, Tournier for Corrientes, Campero for Tucumán—and marginalizing Peronism from its traditional dominance in certain provinces.
Peronism, for its part, is not without challenges. The accumulation of seats places the officialism in a much more competitive position against the Peronist bloc, which would currently have 96 deputies for the period beginning in December, according to parliamentary sources.
They represent a political realignment that evidences the containment dynamic that the officialism has developed towards the critical sectors of radicalism and the Liga del Interior.
These scenarios open the door to a reconfiguration of the balance of forces before the start of the legislative work of the next administration. For the Government, reaching the first minority would imply greater control over the moving majority in key debates, a decisive advantage for the sanctioning of the budget and other laws of institutional and economic impact.
According to parliamentary analysts, the risk for the Peronist space is that the loss of seats, accompanied by provincial fissures, could shift the political axis towards the officialist bloc, which already intends to consolidate itself as the main reference in Congress.
The incorporations are not only numerical in meaning. "In December we will be the most reformist Congress in history".
