The anniversary of José Manuel de la Sota's death brought Peronist figures together again, but also exposed the political distance between his daughters. Candelaria de la Sota organised a tribute in a Buenos Aires hotel and launched “Tomar la posta,” an audiovisual project recovering speeches, images and ideas of the former Córdoba governor. Natalia de la Sota did not attend and chose to remember her father in Río Cuarto. The two events, held on the same day, drew different routes through a shared legacy.
The Buenos Aires gathering combined remembrance, projection and relationship-building. Governor Martín Llaryora attended alongside Senator Alejandra Vigo, deputies Juan Schiaretti and Ignacio García Aresca, ministers Daniel Pastore and Miguel Siciliano, and national figures including Sergio Massa and Gerardo Zamora. Businessman Jorge Brito and Buenos Aires provincial minister Carlos Bianco were also present. The broad guest list allowed Candelaria to appear as host of a cross-generational and cross-sector meeting without yet turning that network into a defined electoral organisation.
Llaryora arrived without previously announcing his attendance and left after the event. His presence acknowledged De la Sota's historical weight and avoided absence from a strongly Córdoba-centred occasion, but did not automatically align him with a national project. The governor is focused on maintaining control of the province and preparing his re-election while managing links with non-Kirchnerist Peronists and opponents of the national government. The photograph widened his conversations without changing those priorities by itself.
Natalia built a different sequence. In Río Cuarto she visited a school opened during one of her father's administrations and toured productive establishments. Her choice combined territorial remembrance with contact with local institutions rather than a leadership gathering in the national capital. Her absence from Candelaria's event prompted interpretations of a family dispute, although her circle denied that she had tried to stop it. The verifiable political fact is that both women selected different settings, audiences and messages.
The distance predates the tribute. Since the 2025 legislative election, Natalia has maintained a tense relationship with the leadership of Llaryora and Juan Schiaretti. She seeks greater decision-making power within the provincial space and a clearer opposition to La Libertad Avanza. Her electoral weight and family name allow her to condition a structure that long attempted to organise Córdoba's succession from the top. The question for 2027 is whether she will challenge that leadership, negotiate integration or seek a place on a national ticket.
Candelaria, by contrast, has signalled an intention to enter politics from a Buenos Aires-centred platform. The audiovisual project gives her an identity linked to her father while offering a tool to develop her own voice. Juan Manuel Olmos, an experienced Buenos Aires Peronist with national connections, appears as a supporter in that route. The initiative is not yet a candidacy, but the calibre of the guests and the chosen venue show a decision to join conversations extending beyond family remembrance.
The sisters share inherited and developed relationships around figures such as Massa, yet they do not appear to organise those links under one strategy. Candelaria cultivates business, media and political contacts from the capital; Natalia retains an electoral base in Córdoba and seeks greater weight in the provincial or national structure. Their overlap may become complementarity or competition. De la Sota's legacy, which joined Córdoba identity with national ambition for decades, is once again a political resource contested by actors with different bases and timetables.
The next moves will show whether the parallel commemorations were an exception or the beginning of two projects. Candelaria must turn visibility and relationships into organisation, public positions and perhaps an electoral offer. Natalia must decide how far to press the provincial leadership and on what terms to reach an agreement. Llaryora will seek enough unity to govern and compete in 2027. The tribute recovered a historic figure; current politics turned that memory into an open question about representation, leadership and succession.
