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Minister of the Interior of Argentina made his resignation available to the president

2021-09-15T18:11:22.297Z


The Argentine Minister of the Interior, Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro wrote in a letter addressed to Fernández making his position available after the result of the country's elections.


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The Minister of the Interior of Argentina, Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro, put his resignation at the disposal of President Alberto Fernández on Wednesday.

"Listening to his words on Sunday night where he raised the need to interpret the verdict expressed by the Argentine people, I have considered that the best way to collaborate with this task is by putting my resignation at his disposal," he wrote in a letter addressed to Fernández and that his team sent to CNN.

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This Sunday, the simultaneous and mandatory open primary elections (PASO) were held in Argentina, prior to the legislative elections on November 14, with an adverse result for the ruling Frente de Todos, which fell in most of the provinces, including the bigger.

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According to official data, Together for Change, the main opposition force, prevailed in the City of Buenos Aires and in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Santa Fe and Mendoza, the five most populated in the country.

The biggest surprise occurred in the province of Buenos Aires, governed by the former Minister of Economy Axel Kicillof, where the opposition won 37.99% of the votes (adding the votes of Diego Santilli and Facundo Manes, who competed internally), against 33.64% of the Frente de Todos.

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Meanwhile, in the City of Buenos Aires, where Juntos por el Cambio is ruling party, it garnered 48.19% of the votes (added the three internal lines), well above the 24.66% of the list of the Frente de Todos .

The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, acknowledged this Sunday the electoral defeat of the ruling party in the primary elections and stressed that he has taken the result into account and that he will work to reverse it in the next general election.

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Source: cnnespanol

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