| Sumario: | This paper analyzes the regionalization process and the participatory strategic planning implemented by the government of Santa Fe province (Argentina) on the first stage of politics, 2008-2012. Since this is an innovative policy for Argentina and the countries in the region the article begins with a description of its aims and consequences in terms of the reorganization of the territories. In a second stage, the implications of the regionalization policy are addressed from the perspective of territorial actors challenged by the same policy: senators and local executive authorities (mayors and communal presidents). The work addresses two fundamental tensions that can guide the study of similar processes in other sub-national contexts. The first one involves departmental senators who have the legitimacy conferred by the electoral process and that, after the implementation of regionalization have to “get alone” with alternative spaces for channeling and representation of citizens’ demands located in their own political territories. The second includes local executive authorities, also legitimized by the popular vote of their municipalities and communes, and those authorities, delegated by the provincial executive, that settle in the new jurisdictions.
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