08/15/2021 20:07
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 08/15/2021 8:40 PM
In the
third provincial election of the year
, the trend in favor of the officialdom was maintained.
The governor of Salta Gustavo Sáenz
was preparing
late this Sunday night to
celebrate the result
, which strengthens him in his purpose of reforming the Constitution and facing 2023, the year in which he
will seek his re-election.
In the capital of Salta -concentrates 60% of the electorate- the governor endorsed two lists of candidates for provincial senators, which ranked
first and third
, and together they obtained almost 44%.
Juntos por el Cambio slipped into second place: it garnered 17.50% of the votes with 99.84% of the votes counted.
The scrutiny
was very fast
due to the fact that voting is electronic in Salta.
Participation was low: 64.40%.
Martín Grande, candidate for senator of Together for Change, this Sunday.
Kirchnerism
was also divided
and the Frente de Todos
was fourth, far behind: it accounted for 9.17% of the votes
in the Salta capital in the "Senator" category.
Sáenz had shown himself during the week with the two candidates in his government office:
Matías Posadas
-Secretary General of the Interior- from Gana Salta (the front with the president's initials) and
Emiliano Durand
from Unidos por Salta.
Durand won, with 32.04%.
The suspension of the primaries, and in this case the strategy of Sáenz, generated divisions in the spaces.
Bettina Romero, mayor of the Capital,
was shown in a photo with Durand
before the voting closed.
An ally of the governor, from the Romero sector they pointed out that she was the main promoter of the winner's candidacy and that the applicants closest to the president were third.
Perhaps
a dispute begins to open between Sáenz and Romero
for the main seat of the province.
In second place in the Capital was Martín Grande, from Together for Change, with 17.55%.
The current national deputy ran with the endorsement of the PRO, a sector of the UCR and the space of
Alfredo Olmedo
, among other parties.
Another radical,
Bernardo Solá
, took 7.45% apart.
Then came Posadas (11.88%) and fourth was
Pamela Ares
, from the Frente de Todos, with 9.2%.
For Kirchnerism,
María del Carmen Lapasset
(Salta para Todos, 4.73%) also appeared.
Twelve senators, 30 provincial deputies, almost 350 councilors and 60 conventional constituents were elected.
Constitutional reform
Sáenz will
promote a reform of the
provincial
Constitution
to limit the governor's mandates to a maximum of two and modify the terms of the Court judges, among other points.
The neighbor Guillermo Aleman prevailed in the municipality of Aguaray.
In the national primaries, Sáenz agreed with the
Frente de Todos
and his space will go with Kirchnerism.