Pablo de Leon
02/15/2021 18:31
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 02/15/2021 6:31 PM
The Front of All advances with the operation of retouching the PASO.
The Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory Primaries, which are planned for the different parties to define their legislative candidates throughout the country next August, are under review with three possible scenarios.
The different government actors, as
Clarín
already
mentioned
, analyze the following possibilities:
one is to suspend the PASO this year
, due to the pandemic and to allocate the almost 20,000 million pesos of its cost to vaccines and other expenses related to the coronavirus.
In this lot, the Peronist governors Juan Manzur (Tucumán), Sergio Uñac (San Juan) and Jorge Milton Capitanich (Chaco) actively militate.
They can be added to the radicals Gerardo Morales (Jujuy) and Gustavo Valdés (Corrientes), who are also opposed to internal disputes in 2021, but who do not find much echo in Juntos por el Cambio for this decision.
The second option is the date shift: that is, the PASO run from August to the second week of September
and the general elections run from October to November.
Here the Government intends to buy time, with data from the economy and an alleged recovery and also to ensure that the vaccination has reached a huge majority of Argentines when spring enters.
Alberto Fernández, Eduardo "Wado" by Pedro and Santiago Cafiero
In this,
a project presented by the deputies close to Martín Lousteau
(Carla Carrizo and Emiliano Yacobitti) who advocate the September date for the primaries is important.
In this way, they could say that from within Juntos por el Cambio a change of dates is being promoted.
Finally, there
is the "double vote system", which would unite the PASO and the general ones on the same date, in a kind of
revival
of the motto law.
According to spokespersons for the Frente de Todos, this "orders the internal and distributes spaces."
And they speculate that the UCR (a centennial party with a presence in every town and city in the country) could subscribe to this idea, as it would solve the multiple presentation of candidates throughout the entire Argentine geography, and where it could take advantage of the PRO , which is not enough to have insertion throughout the country.
How are the plans of the Government of Alberto Ángel Fernández for the retouching of the primaries?
Without having yet reached some kind of agreement with the opposition, next week the issue will begin to be debated in the Chamber of Deputies, which its incumbent Sergio Tomás Massa handles with rigorous zeal.
This discussion will begin in two commissions, that of Constitutional Affairs and that of General Legislation
: the FdT has a majority in both.
Parliamentary sources told
Clarín
that "we will try to achieve the highest level of consensus possible."
This means that there is no consensus with the largest opposition force, which is Together for Change, where there is no uniform position on the issue either.
The line of conversation there should be explored in Massa's dialogue with Cristian Ritondo - head of the PRO bloc - who maintains a privileged relationship with Horacio Rodríguez Larreta and María Eugenia Vidal.
With the radical Mario Raúl Negri - radical parliamentary leader - today there is no open dialogue.
Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, Juan Manzur, Sergio Massa and Wado de Pedro.
The other definition to move forward with the STEP issue is the call to the Federal Health Council
, that is, the appointment of all the health ministers of the country.
Máximo Kirchner defended this position, to relate any decision to "a health and not a political decision."
As the head of the Peronist bloc of national deputies let it be known, "the national authorities and political parties must establish an epidemiological criterion and then decide what measures to adopt around the elections. Any decision must be based on that epidemiological criterion.
COFESA (which brings together the ministers of health from all over the country) should carry out an evaluation
according to the level of contagion and based on that national criterion establish modifications in the calendar if necessary, "he said with the intention of letting it be known, the son of Cristina Kirchner.
Máximo Kirchner does not sponsor the suspension of the PASO
, as some national officials and the governors listed above argue.
The head of La Cámpora says that "the argument to suspend due to the cost of the election is not valid. The election of authorities and the possibility of choosing the people is priceless."
in a clear definition of who wants interns and that their group is active to compete in some categories, fundamentally in the province of Buenos Aires, their place of greatest territorial deployment.
In the official summit that was held the previous week (and that Clarín unveiled), and in which Alberto Fernández, Santiago Cafiero, Sergio Massa, Máximo Kirchner and Wado De Pedro participated, it was analyzed that
"running the date is already a triumph of the Government "
.
Beyond not getting a single date for the two elections, having the voting postponed to September and November, would already be an official achievement.
These days, conversations on the subject continued among the heads of the Frente de Todos.
"The chat
is on fire,
"
one of them graphed it.
And this long weekend (due to the carnival holidays), the Minister of the Interior,
Wado De Pedro, makes a new round of consultations throughout the country
to measure, both in government and opposition leaders, how the temperature is currently for the three variables that the Government manages for the STEP.
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