Jasmine Bullorini
09/13/2021 3:52 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 09/13/2021 3:52 PM
"(Mauricio) Macri is not John Lennon and Córdoba is not Liverpool".
"The list was not well put together and the campaign started late."
While the reasons for the result of the Cordovan intern of Juntos por el Cambio - which consolidated Luis Juez as a candidate for senator and
left Mario Negri out of the race
- are still under study, the dispute over the unification of the lists of deputies in that coalition it looms with an open end until the final scrutiny.
The key will be placed in the distance of final points between the winning list and the one that came second;
It can make a difference that, for example, Gustavo Santos - the candidate that Mauricio Macri is pushing for the governorship in 2023 -
is third or goes directly to fifth or seventh place
.
It is not less considering that of the 9 deputies that Córdoba puts at stake in this election, if the results of last Sunday are repeated in November,
JxC could renew 6 seats
.
Each coalition sets its own rules when it comes to amalgamating the lists.
The only national provision is to respect the Parity Law: men and women alternate, one and one.
Together for the Change in Córdoba raised a floor of 25% of the total votes of the space for a ballot to enter the distribution of seats.
With 99% of tables scrutinized, the four lists that competed within the front added 47.55%: 864,380 votes.
Of that total, the winning list headed by radical councilor Rodrigo De Loredo and Senator Laura Rodríguez Machado obtained 58.6% (506,562 votes), while that of Santos and Soledad Carrizo obtained 35.03% (302,867 votes) .
The two remaining options, added together, barely reached 6% and were left out of the distribution.
The dilemma that now opens is another.
The front agreed that if the difference between the winning list and the other
was greater than 25%
, the traditional D'Hont system would be applied, which leaves more candidates on the winning list in the first places.
But if the difference is less than that percentage, they proposed the binomial system: the first two candidates on the winning list, followed by the first two candidates on the ballot who lost the internal one.
And from fifth place down, cast by D'Hont.
That's where the debate begins.
Because if the calculation between both lists is made by taking the total votes in the space, the difference is 23.57%, but if it is done on the sum of the votes that only the two contending lists took, the difference is 25.1 %.
For some this is clear in the wording of the regulation, for others it is
an "interpretive" issue
.
The talks are already underway but there is speculation involved.
"Yesterday the polls resolved who are the winners and who are the losers in Together for Change in Córdoba, today Monday we are building bridges and establishing
channels of dialogue to achieve unity for all
. Córdoba is the cradle of resistance to Kirchnerism and we are going to be united so that our province continues to be the pride of the defense of the Republic, "
Oscar Agost Carreño, 1st vice president of the local Pro and candidate on De Loredo's list
, told
Clarín
.
The truth is that if pure D'Hont is applied, the order would be for the winning list the first place, the third, the fourth, the sixth and the seventh.
While Santos would reserve the second, fifth and eighth.
The tentative scheme would be: De Loredo, Carrizo, Hectór Baldassi, Rodríguez Machado, Santos and Gabriela Brower.
The winning list doesn't want to rush.
The other list
prefers to close the binomial system
, with pressure from national sectors, to prevent Macri's candidate from being fifth.
Santos was initially going to be a candidate for senator, he was left out of that race and headed deputies.
If he is fifth he has a chance to enter, but safer if the binamios are applied and he is third.
Córdoba, sent special