After Mauricio Macri's message, the Buenos Aires Government Minister, Jorge Macri, added this Monday his criticism of the concurrent elections in the City of Buenos Aires, considering that "it is a complex, expensive system that harms the people."
"Changing the electoral system a few months after voting can be complex, you have to educate people and authorities. The contestants are not simple or cheap, they are complex and expensive," questioned one of the PRO candidates in the Buenos Aires internal.
In dialogue with Radio La Red, the City official said that this Monday he will meet with the Buenos Aires head of government to discuss the concurrent elections.
Although he avoided commenting before the decision is made, he did raise his doubts about the new system that could be implemented.
"We have to choose the cheapest and simplest system so that people can vote. It is a STEP, but it is general because it involves all political spaces, it does not have to respond to internal party problems, it has to have a general look" Macri asked.
He also avoided entering into the controversy about whether this system benefits Martín Lousteau, who will be the candidate for radicalism, and argued that said system "harms people"
"It doesn't matter which candidate benefits or not, I have great confidence in the Buenos Aires, he will vote what he wants, no matter how complicated they make it," he said.
"(The voter) wants the recount to be quick and that at 9 at night we know the result quite clearly. If at 2 in the morning we are seeing what happened, we are blown away," he said.
Macri anticipated that concurrent elections would double the time it takes people to vote.
"You would have to go into the dark room with an envelope, and then go with a single paper ballot that was never used. The vote, which took 4 minutes, will take 10. We run the risk of fewer people participating, that takes away legitimacy and transparency," he said.
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