The provincial government allocated millions of pesos last month to bolster the chances of Frente de Todos, while child poverty doubled in Gran Tucumán in the last five years. In the capital, ruled by the opposition, they handed out bonds.
The system is so naturalized that memes circulate of people who fainted last month, when the Supreme Court suspended the provincial elections, because they had already spent the $ 5,000 they had charged to vote for a certain candidate.