Overview
- De la Sota notified Chamber president Martín Menem on Oct. 28 that she was creating the unipersonal Defendamos Córdoba block, effective immediately.
- Her departure reduces the heterogeneous Encuentro Federal bench from 15 to 14 members in the Lower House.
- Analysts say the step preempts an expected absorption of Encuentro Federal into Provincias Unidas that would place her alongside recent rivals led by Juan Schiaretti.
- She secured reelection with roughly 169,951 votes, about 8.7–8.75%, and is credited with drawing around 20% of Córdoba’s peronist vote and about 11% of the provincial government’s core electorate.
- Her record in Congress has been more oppositional to President Javier Milei, aligning her ideologically closer to Unión por la Patria even as she opts to preserve autonomy.