Overview

• Defense minister Luis Petri quit the UCR, formally joined La Libertad Avanza and was unveiled as the alliance’s lead national deputy candidate, with affiliation photos alongside Karina Milei and Martín Menem released once the deal was locked.
• Cornejo’s circle in Mendoza describes the maneuver as a betrayal, internal frictions surfaced at the joint launch, and local list decisions include vetoes of Petrists with expectations that Petri will seat roughly three allies in the provincial Legislature.
• Omar De Marchi placed Álvaro “Laucha” Martínez in the national slate, a move that unsettled the ruling UCR in Mendoza even as Cornejo publicly accommodated him at the provincial presentation.
• The ANDIS case intensified after leaked audios of director Diego Spagnuolo discussing alleged bribe schemes and subsequent raids, prompting quiet distancing around Karina Milei, a scrapped fiscal-announcement plan and a measurable spike in online negativity tied to the scandal.
• In Congress, legislators aligned with governors who cut electoral deals with LLA helped sustain presidential vetoes through absences, abstentions and supportive votes, while the push to reallocate ATN funds exposed shifting loyalties and a brittle legislative coalition.