The Encuentro Federal block, led by Miguel Pichetto, is under threat of rupture as negotiations to merge with deputies elected under the Provincias Unidas banner become entangled. However, there is still a chance to piece together all the parts into a new "center" interblock.
The main point of dispute is the presidency of the potential new interblock: Pichetto wants to keep the presidency, but the governors of Santa Fe, Maximiliano Pullaro, and Córdoba, Martín Llaryora, demand that leadership fall to a representative of the provincial powers. They suggest the name of the outgoing vice governor of the former, Gisela Scaglia.
In the midst of this predicament, the native of Río Negro threatens to form his own reduced block alongside Nicolás Masa and seeks to gauge the two surviving deputies from the Civic Coalition, Maximiliano Ferraro and Mónica Frade, to form a separate group.
On the Provincias Unidas side, they assure that for now they have 16 members, as learned by this agency in dialogue with a national deputy who is preparing the space's landing in the Chamber of Deputies.
Amid the rumors of rupture, this medium learned, the issue is "solvable" and could be resolved with the formation of an interblock with a collegiate "inter paris" leadership, coordinated by Scaglia or another name emerging from the provinces but with Pichetto as the authority of Encuentro Federal and Ferraro for the Civic Coalition.
"The name Provincias Unidas is not going to happen."
