The Government made its proposal official to delay the PASO and the general elections

Guido Carelli Lynch

04/09/2021 18:08

• Clarín.com

• Politics

Updated 04/09/2021 18:08

The president of Deputies Sergio Massa sent this afternoon the draft of the bill to modify the electoral schedule to postpone the PASO and the general elections for one month to the heads of the congressional interblocks.

Interior Minister Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro had promised to send an official project to the authorities of the Lower House.

The Executive intends to pass the primaries from August to September 2 and the general ones from October to November 14.

The Juntos por el Cambio interblock will analyze the fine print of the official project.

The opposition had asked the ruling party to send its own project, without taking into account those already presented by radicalism deputies such as Emiliano Yacobitti.

The project sent by the ruling party - it is not yet clear whether it will be a project of the Executive or of the Frente de Todos bench - has only six articles.

The Juntos por el Cambio interblock will be discussed this afternoon and in the next few days the leaders of the first opposition force will meet again this week to agree on a common position.

The Executive's project - to which Clarín had access - proposes to modify the electoral schedule for the only time.

In the opposition there are different views on the scope that the reform should have.

The toughest sector of the PRO, headed by Patricia Bullrich, wants the Single Paper Ballot to be adopted.

In the ruling party they believe that the times of the Electoral Chamber are not enough.

The Executive's project also proposes that the officialization of lists and candidacies that mark the formal start of the campaign be 45 days before the election.

The opposition, meanwhile, intends to form a new EOC of experts to analyze the health situation and to incorporate mathematicians, economists and professionals, as well as infectologists.

The initiative would be accepted by the ruling party.

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