Buenos Aires, November 28 (NA) – National PRO deputy Silvia Lospennato announced today that she will assume the post of city legislator, for which she was voted in the elections last May, and in doing so the yellow bloc will lose one seat since her replacement, Lorena Petrovich, is a former official of Patricia Bullrich and will take the office for La Libertad Avanza.
"With great joy I want to confirm that I will keep my word and starting December 10 I will honor every vote of confidence in PRO from my seat in the City Legislature," she confirmed on her social network X account.
"Together with the President of National PRO, Mauricio Macri, and our Head of Government, Jorge Macri, we will continue to work every day to defend the values of Freedom and the Republic, order and public safety, health and quality education, the development of private initiative, public investment and permanent innovation because we understand public management as a service to improve the life of every porteño citizen," she continued.
"I leave the National Congress feeling that I have fulfilled with absolute responsibility and professionalism the enormous honor that Argentines gave me and I will add all that legislative experience and my enthusiasm to transform together this city that is our pride every day," she concluded.
Hours before Lospennato's statement, the now PRO deputy Alejandro Bongiovanni communicated to the head of the bloc, Cristian Ritondo, that he was going to accept the offer that La Libertad Avanza had made him days ago to switch to the libertarian ranks.
Thus, PRO would start the new cycle after the parliamentary turnover on April 10 with only 14 national deputies, after having been a political force that averaged 35 members in the first two years of Javier Milei's government.
"At the moment we are 14," high sources in the presidency of the yellow bloc confirmed to the Argentine News Agency.
The poor electoral performance that PRO had in October, when it competed with its own seal in only three districts with null results, already anticipated a sharp drop in parliamentary representation.
But the strongest blow came from Patricia Bullrich's move to snatch nearly a dozen deputies from Ritondo and Macri, among them Silvana Giudici, Damián Arabia, Patricia Vásquez, Laura Rodríguez Machado, Sabrina Ajmechet, Belén Avicoy and the aforementioned Bongiovanni.
