The Province will have its primary, open, simultaneous and mandatory elections to choose the candidates for governor
on Sunday, August 13
, simultaneously with the national ones.
"In accordance with the current Law, and in accordance with the times and forms established in the electoral procedure of the Province, this call is only for the PASO, which will be carried out simultaneously with the national election," confirmed the Buenos Aires governor
Axel kicillof
.
He thus referred to decree 567/2023 published this Saturday in the Official Gazette of the Province, which bears the signatures of Kicillof himself, the Buenos Aires chief of staff, Martín Insaurralde, and the minister of government, María Cristina Álvarez Rodríguez.
In this way, Kicillof -
he will be able to run for re-election
- rejected the versions that spoke of the possibility of voting separately from the presidential election.
The definition of the Buenos Aires president served to dispel the reports that arose from the ruling party itself and that indicated that the governor could unfold the elections so that the presidential ballot of the Frente de Todos does not endanger the objective of retaining the Province.
"No one who is in management is thinking of a split," they had advanced in the Kicillof Cabinet.
Privately, the governor always rejected the idea of splitting, although he did analyze it.
In the ruling party they maintain that the main winning card of the FdT in the Province are the votes that Javier Milei could take away from Together for Change in an election without a second ballot.
Also - as explained by Buenos Aires leaders - the unification of the calendar allows the governor
to shield himself as a provincial candidate
against the wishes of those who want to see him at the top of the ballot, as a presidential candidate.
Among those who pushed the split were mainly leaders from La Cámpora who are not part of the provincial Cabinet.
Anointing Kicillof as a presidential candidate would serve to clear in the same move the gubernatorial box to which his chief of staff, Martín Insaurralde, an ally
of Máximo Kirchner, aspires, among others.
This week, in an act, Kicillof began by talking about the electoral agenda in his district and compared it with the concurrent elections that Horacio Rodríguez Larreta wants in the City.
"The Province has a law that is an adherence to the national law. The PASO will be on the same date," he said in this regard
.
Kicillof, along with Vice President Cristina Kirchner.
When asked if, if he had the power, he would be willing to split, the former Economy Minister had sown doubts and began to question Alberto Fernández's electoral strategy: "They are complex decisions when the total strategy is not defined."
So he did
point directly to the President
.
"On Militant Day, November 27, 2021, after the midterm legislative elections, the President said in an act: 'Let's STEP'. He set that strategy. We did not discuss it," Kicillof said on the channel official C5N.
In this line, he showed his distance from that decision of the head of the Executive and head of the national PJ, at the same time that he highlighted the figure of the vice president: "The President marked a STEP. When Cristina Kirchner resolved the strategy in 2017 and 2019
the
result was that the elections were won. In 2017 an important step was taken and in 2019 almost 20 points were taken in the Province".
And he remarked: "What I am saying today about the political strategy is that it was set by the President and
we have not had space to discuss it
ourselves."
The PASO in Province
On Sunday, August 13, the candidates for governor and lieutenant governor, 23 titular provincial senators and 16 substitutes, 46 titular provincial deputies and 28 substitutes, 135 mayors, 1,097 titular councilors and 706 substitutes, will be elected in the Buenos Aires territory.
Public positions will be distributed according to the following detail: Capital Section 3 titular senators and 3 substitutes, 15 titular deputies and 8 substitute;
Second Section 5 titular senators and 3 substitutes;
Third Section 9 titular senators and 6 substitutes;
Fourth Section: 14 titular deputies and 8 substitutes;
Fifth Section 11 titular deputies and 8 substitutes;
Sixth Section 6 titular senators and 4 substitutes;
Seventh Section 6 titular deputies and 4 substitutes.
The provincial government recalled that the primary elections and the general elections "are two independent electoral acts" and therefore "the deadlines for carrying out the respective calls arise from different laws."
In this sense, in the case of general elections, they indicated that article 114 of Electoral Law 5109 establishes that "the call must be made no less than 90 days in advance."
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