Buenos Aires, November 29, 2025 – Total News Agency-TNA – La Libertad Avanza (LLA) expanded its bloc in the Chamber of Deputies with the incorporation of the Santa Fe legislator Alejandro Bongiovanni, who confirmed this Friday his move from PRO. With his arrival, the libertarian bloc will reach 94 members as of December, consolidating an expansion that reconfigures the parliamentary map and brings the ruling coalition close to surpassing Unión por la Patria as the first minority. Bongiovanni, a lawyer and liberal leader, had been courted for days by emissaries from the officialist bloc. Among them are figures like Damián Arabia and Silvana Giudici, the latter being a particularly sensitive loss as she was the yellow bloc's parliamentary secretary; she will now hold the same role in LLA, alongside Nicolás Mayoraz. The libertarian advance is not limited to PRO. They were recently joined by the Córdoba-born Belén Avico, also a former PRO member. With 94 deputies secured from December, La Libertad Avanza is one step away from displacing Unión por la Patria as the first minority, a key point in the parliamentary architecture. According to legislative sources, she communicated her decision this morning to the head of the PRO bloc, Cristian Ritondo, after evaluating the offer to join the libertarian coalition. The former minister has become one of the main architects of LLA's legislative growth, promoting a series of incorporations that have left PRO in a situation of increasing weakening. The 'yellow bleeding' continued this Friday evening when deputy Silvia Lospennato announced she will assume her seat in the Buenos Aires Legislature, won in May. Her replacement will be Lorena Petrovich, a former official under Bullrich, who will directly join the La Libertad Avanza bloc, taking another seat away from PRO. The bloc presided over by Ritondo was already reeling since eight deputies—current and elected—had left PRO to join the libertarian bloc, also under Bullrich's political influence. 'The final decision was made today, but the proposal was on the table for a few days,' they stated from the yellow bloc. The Santa Fe native's move adds to the recent arrival of Verónica Razzini, a former PRO leader and anti-blockades movement figure, who was publicly welcomed by the future head of the libertarian bloc in the Senate, Patricia Bullrich. The bloc that will head the Lower Chamber will have a decisive say in the distribution of committees under the D'Hont system and, especially, in the designation of the first vice president, a strategic post in the legislative dynamic. The officialism thus continues an accelerated expansion campaign to secure greater political control in Congress. The dispute for the first minority will be decisive in the composition of the next session period and already configures one of the most intense chapters of the parliamentary transition towards 2026. In recent days, LLA secured the arrival of three deputies from the Liga del Interior, known as 'radicals with wigs': the Tucuman Mariano Campero, the Córdoba Luis Picato, and the Correntino José Federico Tournier.
