Friday, December 12, will not just be any old day for the Unión Cívica Radical, one of Argentina’s historic political parties. On that day the UCR National Committee authorities, chaired by Martín Lousteau, stand to be renewed but that succession – along with the general political context – obliges a rethink of the future of a party passing through one of its most complex moments.
In that framework, the UCR’s five governors – along with the senators, deputies and the most influential leaders – are working toward a consensus as to who will replace Lousteau, the outgoing senator and deputy-elect for Buenos Aires City.
All that within an intricate structural context. Two of the five provincial governors are allies of La Libertad Avanza (Mendoza’s Alfredo Cornejo and Chaco’s Leandro Zde
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