Buenos Aires, November 21 (NA) -- The Minister of the Interior, Diego Santilli, will meet this Friday with the governor of Santiago del Estero, Gerardo Zamora, to agree on support for the 2026 Budget and the key reforms that the libertarian administration is promoting in Congress, for which the official hopes to continue weakening the Peronist blocs.
The meeting will take place at 11 a.m. at the provincial Government House, official sources told the Noticias Argentinas Agency. Zamora controls seven national deputies that the Casa Rosada seeks to align behind its objectives; and in the context of these negotiations, there are versions that the Santiago man could form a separate bloc with them and thus continue to fracture the Peronist bench, which is on the verge of losing its status as the first minority in the Lower House to La Libertad Avanza.
The governor, of radical origin but a staunch ally of Kirchnerism for many years, has recently distanced himself from the former president and in the government of Javier Milei provided key votes in the Lower House for the Bases Law.
Santilli will seek in his visit to Santiago that Zamora now approaches again, after the resounding triumph of the libertarian party in the October legislative elections.
On Tuesday, meanwhile, the minister will make a new visit to a provincial governor, this time to the Missionary Hugo Passalacqua, according to official sources told the Noticias Argentinas Agency. The former governor of Misiones and the political leader of the province, Carlos Rovira, manages four national deputies and two national senators to whom the libertarian administration also wants to give their positive vote when considering the upcoming reforms.
After that meeting, the minister will have meetings with only six governors to complete the first round of audiences with the 20 provincial governors who signed the May Pact last year.
Thus, he will have to meet with the governors Claudio Vidal (Santa Cruz); Sergio Ziliotto (La Pampa); Claudio Poggi (San Luis); Maximiliano Pullaro (Santa Fe); Gustavo Valdés (Corrientes) and Jorge Macri (CABA).
