Alexander Alfie
09/12/2021 18:20
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 09/12/2021 18:30
The Government announced that it will begin to disseminate the first results of the PASO elections
when there are 10% of the votes counted
in the main districts of the country, which is "representative at the federal level," said an official spokesman at the headquarters of Correo Argentino.
Despite the provisions of an Agreement of the National Electoral Chamber (CNE), which set the time of 9:00 p.m. to begin to disseminate the first data, the Government resolved that it will only give them when there is a 10% floor in the
city of Buenos Aires and the provinces of Buenos Aires, Mendoza, Córdoba and Santa Fe.
"It is similar to what was done in the 2019 presidential elections. And now there are 103 more lists than in that election and we have to respect the health protocols, which delay the start of the vote count,"
a spokesman for the Ministry of Education
told
Clarín.
Interior at the headquarters where the provisional scrutiny is carried out.
This situation caused crossings during the last week between the ruling party and the opposition, which generated a judicial presentation of Together for Change
demanding that at 9:00 p.m. the Government should announce the first results,
as established in Agreed 3 that the CNE issued in 2017 and that it is in force, according to its president Santiago Corcuera, in the meeting last Thursday with the proxies of the party.
At that meeting, Corcuera ratified the validity of Agreed Extraordinary 3, whose article 6.1 establishes that "the dissemination of the results
must begin no later than twenty-one (21) hours on the day of the election,
regardless of the percentage of polling stations scrutinized. until that moment".
Before that presentation of Together for Change, the federal judge with electoral competence María Romilda Servini appointed Gastón Callejon and Sergio Bernaudo as computer judicial overseers, to guarantee "greater certainty" and "prevent inconveniences" that could arise during the provisional scrutiny.
But Judge Servini made no mention of the time when the results should be disseminated,
as she resolved in the 2019 presidential STEP
, where she did establish that they should be released only when a 10% floor was exceeded in the Capital and the provinces of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe and Córdoba.
"We take this criterion as the basis for the dissemination of today's results,"
stated a government spokesperson, to justify the change with respect to what was established by the National Electoral Chamber.
And he added: "In the presidential STEP the data were only at 10:34 pm."
A technical specialist who participates in the provisional scrutiny explained to
Clarín
that the data
will be available to disseminate from 9:00 p.m.
, in several provinces where national deputies and senators are elected, or national deputies and local legislators, such as the city of Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Tierra del Fuego, among others.
But the government made
the political decision to "endure" the results
for almost two hours, so that there is a larger volume of data when they are disseminated to society.