Gustavo Valdés harshly criticized the senator, who is president of his party. "He is not going to come and mark the field for me within radicalism," he challenged Martín Lousteau.

Valdés is aligned with the sector of Alfredo Cornejo, former head of the UCR and today governor of Mendoza. Milei's first visit as president to the interior of the country was to Corrientes, the province governed by the radical Gustavo Valdes.