Jujuy, La Rioja and Misiones
define their new governors on a new Sunday of the 2023 elections, as well as local positions.
As in every election day,
there was no shortage of unusual situations a few steps from the polls
, from the table suspended for
barbecue
to the
fugitives
who fulfilled their civic duty and were captured.
The province that woke up with a gloomier outlook was Misiones, where the Concord Renovation Front seeks to extend its hegemony of two decades in the governorship.
The complications were expected and foreseeable: in the last six days 100 millimeters of precipitation
fell
.
Storm alerts were yellow level for the north and orange level for the south and center.
There were
people voting underwater, covering themselves with umbrellas and pilots
.
In other cases, such as Leandro N. Alem and Garupá, inclement weather made it necessary to move tables and
flooded a school patio
.
The ruling party, which mobilized a
system of taxis and remises for voters
, will have taken it as a wink for the outgoing governor, Oscar Ahuad, and with the hope of the candidate to succeed him, Hugo Passalacqua.
In keeping with the landscape, there were several who
committed a crime, fled and were caught
.
In total, there were four fugitives who fell into the security nets with the
electoral hook
.
Osvaldo C., 57, got up early and showed up at 8:30 a.m. at School 193 in
Mojón Grande
.
There he was detained: a request for his capture weighed on him since last November for
serious injuries
.
At 10, they arrested Ernesto I. (26), who had a case for a robbery in Alem.
At Bernardo de Irigoyen School No. 604, they captured Darío L. (29), whom
they had been looking for since March
.
And at Escuela 21 de Apóstoles, the escape of Alberto N. (26), who believed he had left an episode of injuries and threats
behind him, ended
.
The four fugitives captured in Misiones when they went to vote.
Unlike the wet Sunday in Misiones, what nobody anticipated was the unusual reason why the elections were paused at a table in La Rioja.
It happened at School No. 97 in the town of Rosario Vera Peñaloza:
table suspended for barbecue
.
The attorney general of Together for Change denounced it.
"At 1:15 p.m. the voting closed for an hour because the rest went to eat a barbecue and I stayed here alone. We have
a one-hour recess
. The voters come and they are told," he recounted in a video, as reported by the newspaper
The Gazette
.
In Jujuy there were also accusations.
It happened in Perico
, where in addition to the gubernatorial election, a decisive local party is also at stake: eleven candidates will define the next mayor in twelve polling places.
It will be two months after the dismissal of Luciano Demarco, which left Walter Cardozo in charge of the municipality.
There, the left -very strong in Jujuy- denounced the
distribution of merchandise
for patronage purposes.
From the other point of the political spectrum, Cecilia García Casasco, candidate for governor for the Values, Ideas and Actions (VIA) + Libertarians front, joined.
"It makes me very sad to see that some sectors are managed in a client-oriented manner, with businesses after the needs of the people. They take advantage of the fact that people are in great need," she assured after casting her vote.
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