The candidate of the Together for Change coalition (center-right) to govern the city of Buenos Aires, Jorge Macri, He will be the new mayor of the Argentine capital Resignation of official candidate Leandro Santoroabout to participate in the second round.
In a statement published this Tuesday on the social networks of the Unión por la Patria (Peronism) coalition, Santoro said that he made a “realistic reading of the election results”, whose last review began this Tuesday, and therefore considered it “absurd”. “We will focus on supporting Economy Minister Sergio Massa to force a second round and win the Presidency of the South American country.
Jorge Macri will be the new mayor Buenos Aires After winning on Sunday – in an interim review carried out by the Administration, which has no legal validity – he received 49.61% of the votes, ahead of Santoro (32.30%) and La Libertad Avanza’s candidate (far right) Ramiro Marra (13, 89) was in front of him. %).
In a statement, Santoro thanked the support of the 600,000 Buenos Aires residents who chose his candidacy in the first round of Sunday’s elections, saying that this result “pushes him to continue creating an alternative to Macrism in the city.”
Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, fourth electoral district in the country (behind the provinces of Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Santa Fe), Since 2007, Argentina has been governed by the centre-right. when his cousin and founder of the current Republican Proposal (Pro), Mauricio Macri, became head of the Buenos Aires Government.
Macri left office in 2015 after serving two terms as mayor, the maximum number stipulated by law. He was replaced by Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, who has ruled the capital since 2015.
Both former mayors tried their luck in national politics After serving in the Autonomous City government, only Macri was able to preside over Argentina between 2015 and 2019.
Rodríguez Larreta, on the other hand, competed with Patricia Bullrich in August this year to lead the Together for Change coalition towards the Argentine Presidency, but lost to the former Minister of Security.
Now a new member of the Macri family occupies a position comparable to that of any provincial governor in Argentina.
58 year old businessman Jorge Macri was a state deputy and mayor of the town from the party of Vicente López in the north of the capital. This was certainly one of the points that supported challenging his candidacy, because the Buenos Aires Constitution states that the candidate must have lived there in the last 5 years, in addition to being born in Buenos Aires. Although it did not meet either requirement, the High Court of Justice approved its inclusion on the lists.
On Sunday, after the first results became known, which were not finalized due to the narrow margin that prevented Macri from gaining the 50% of the votes needed to avoid a second round – The future head of government thanked the different forces that make up Together for Change for their assistance.
“Although we have not been lucky enough to work with a cohesive government other than four of them, we want to continue to defend what we have achieved for 16 years,” Macri said. said.