Leandro Santoro returned to the opposition's strategic debate with a phrase that summarises his reading of the moment: Peronism's division is not inevitable, and the division of the right is not impossible.
The argument goes to the heart of the national political scenario. For Santoro, the outcome of the coming years will depend not only on the strength of Javier Milei's government, but also on the opposition's ability to organise leadership, build majorities and prevent internal differences from becoming irreversible.
His diagnosis challenges an idea installed in part of the political system: that Peronism is condemned to fragment while the right automatically preserves unity. Santoro reverses that premise and proposes looking at the map with more movement and less determinism.
In that reading, Peronism still has room to rebuild a broad synthesis. That synthesis should include traditional, progressive, union, territorial and urban sectors, without reducing the debate to an internal fight over personal names.
The leader also sees possible fissures within the government and its allies. The coexistence of libertarians, PRO sectors, governors, pragmatic legislators and harder-right groups could become unstable if social costs, electoral disputes or tensions over power-sharing emerge.
Buenos Aires City appears as a particular laboratory for that discussion. Santoro has been trying to articulate a progressive and Peronist space capable of competing in a district that has long been adverse but remains strategic for any national project.
The debate goes beyond immediate electoral tactics. The deeper question is what kind of opposition can confront Milei: a defensive coalition built against austerity, or a proposal with programme, democratic identity, social agenda and governing capacity.
Santoro's intervention organises a political message: nothing is written in advance. Peronist unity is not closed off, and the right does not have guaranteed cohesion. The outcome will depend on leadership, strategy and social reading of Argentina's new cycle.
