Competitividad, (auto)marginalidad e integración. Los tiempos políticos en la construcción de Propuesta Republicana en la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2005–2015

This article aims to reconstruct the political activity of Propuesta Republicana (pro) in the Province of Buenos Aires between 2005 and 2015 – a period that spans its first participation in this arena of electoral competition through to its victory that enabled it to assume provincial government. Drawing on observation of electoral processes and the speeches of its principal leaders, the article offers an analysis of the distinct temporalities traversed by the party. For the study of this cycle, I propose an approach that seeks to associate and classify electoral tendencies and discursive continuities into temporal groupings, thereby identifying their degrees of durability – elements that can contribute to recognizing and delimiting the sedimentation of right-wing political currents in the process of constructing electoral offerings attractive to voters. The temporalities identified allow me to group voices, actions, confrontations and objectives in relation to the contexts that produced them. At the same time, to temporalize is to identify inflection points and relevant milestones for observing the historical singularities of events. The result of the analysis is the identification of three phases: expansion and competitive construction (2005–2011), (self-)marginalization and retrenchment (2011–2013), and integration with the victory of María Eugenia Vidal (2013–2015).