The presidential and vice-presidential nominees have been announced. Argentina started this sunday to vote in their party’s primary elections with 28 percent turnout at noon and a shared message in favor of participation amid complaints Technical problems in some schools in Buenos Airesas the pre-candidate was exposed Patricia Bullrich.
The so-called Simultaneous and Mandatory Open Primary Elections (PASO) are often an x-ray of the country’s mood. discontent with the political class This was seen once again in local elections, with high abstentions and blank votes that could be repeated on Sunday.
all candidates focused their campaigns on making recommendations to improve the economy In a country where inflation has been around 50 percent in 2023, which has been going on for several years, poverty is close to 40 percent and insecurity is growing, both due to social inequality and the advancement of structural criminals related to drug trafficking.
On the Peronist side, the candidates for Unión por la Patria were Minister of Economy, Sergio MassaHaving difficulty in persuading voters after failing to control inflation, and Juan Grabois, leader of one of the forces on the far left of the ruling coalition and that comes from social movements.
In the context of this particular instability within Peronism, Opposition coalition Together for Change leaves with a minimal advantage According to various polls in the October elections. Their very obvious primaries are being discussed by the head of the Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. Bullrich, who is very close to Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and former Security Minister and former President Mauricio Macriwho does not participate in these elections.
Massa handed in the ballot “with good expectation” this Sunday, but “it is important that people go to vote first and foremost,” he told media in front of the polling station at school No. 34 in the Tigre locality.
One of the leaders of Together for Change, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta took the opportunity to highlight the unity promised by the opposition when the primaries ended.. According to the statements gathered by ‘Clarín’ at the exit of the Faculty of Law at the University of Buenos Aires, “Today and tomorrow we will all be together”.
Larreta’s rival in the presidential election, Bullrich, assured that the winner would decide “how the circumstances were, how to talk” from the “common” bunker that both rivals would share.
“We will be in the same bunker and the winner will decide what the terms are, how to talk, and the other has already agreed to those terms. In peace and together something will happen“, Radio Miter reported.
Manuela Castañeira, presidential candidate of the New More AllianceWhile voting in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires province, he repeated the phrase “you have to vote because this is the most fundamental right, it is the pillar of everything”.
President, for himself Alberto Fernandez also voted, this time at the headquarters of the Catholic University of Argentina (UCA), located in the Puerto Madero neighborhood, without the presence of First Lady Fabiola Yañez. The president, like other politicians, wanted citizens to participate “as it is the way to express our rights and our will for the future”.