Friday, August 14th 2026 - 10:43 UTC
With little more than a year to go before Argentina's presidential elections of October 2027, the governing party and the main opposition force began this week to realign their positions. La Libertad Avanza, the party of President Javier Milei, resumed talks with former president Mauricio Macri's PRO, while the various currents of Peronism agreed a truce aimed at blocking the electoral reform the government is promoting.
Macri and the general secretary of the presidency, Karina Milei, held a telephone conversation of around thirty minutes on Monday, their first in more than nine months. On Thursday, delegates from both forces met for two hours at the Casa Rosada: Cristian Ritondo and Fernando de Andreis for PRO, and Cabinet Chief Diego Santilli together with lawmakers Martín and Eduardo Menem for the government.
The outcome was the creation of a joint political table that will meet every two weeks, and a statement in which both sides said they shared “the conviction that Argentina cannot fall back into the hands of populism.” There is as yet no national electoral alliance. Macri has said PRO will field its own candidate in 2027 and is already promoting former economy minister Hernán Lacunza. Convergence appears strongest in Buenos Aires province.
