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Elections in San Juan: who is the businessman who stopped Sergio Uñac's re-election ambition in the Court

2023-05-09T21:45:38.749Z

Highlights: The Supreme Court of Justice suspended the gubernatorial election that was to be held this Sunday. The blow to the re-election project of the current governor Sergio Uñac (PJ) was dealt from a judicial presentation of a small opposition party that has only been six months in formation. The Federal Evolution party is of liberal ideology and has Patricia Bullrich as a national reference, although it is not part of Together for Change. It was created by Sergio Vallejos six months ago to compete as a pre-candidate for governor.


The opposition party Evolución Federal was created just six months ago. It has Patricia Bullrich and Ricardo López Murphy as national references.


A piece of news shook the siesta in San Juan: the Supreme Court of Justice suspended the gubernatorial election that was to be held this Sunday and no one could rest. The blow to the re-election project of the current governor Sergio Uñac (PJ) was dealt from a judicial presentation of a small opposition party that has only been six months in formation.

"I congratulate the Court because it has shown that we are all equal before the law. Now all that remains is to work so that San Juan ceases to be a fiefdom and there is independence of powers," Sergio Vallejos, the textile businessman and candidate for governor of Federal Evolution, told Clarín, who resorted to Justice with constitutional arguments.

The Federal Evolution party is of liberal ideology and has Patricia Bullrich as a national reference, although it is not part of Together for Change. It was created by Vallejos six months ago to compete as a pre-candidate for governor, accompanied by politician and journalist Federica Mariconda.

The businessman who owns the textile company Zonda clothing never held public office but has several years of business militancy through the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA), the CAME and founding partner of the Argentine Chamber of Energy and Mining Suppliers. "It is a party in formation, we compete as a sub-slogan of the United for San Juan coalition," Vallejos explained.

At 14:50 p.m., when he received the news from the media that the election was suspended in San Juan and, also, in Tucumán; Vallejos was having lunch with the national deputy of Together for Change Ricardo López Murphy at the Sirio Libanés club. The liberal economist had been invited by Vallejos' party at the close of the campaign.

San Juan. They ask to impugate the candidacy of Uñac. The constitutionalist Cristian Cao and the canidato to governor Sergio Vallejos, on April 10, 2023, in his presentation in the Court of the Nation.

Vallejos appealed to the Court arguing that the San Juan constitution prevents a third consecutive candidacy of the governor and vice president. The current governor Uñac was an uninterrupted member of the province's governing binomial since 2011.

After having exhausted all judicial instances in the Electoral Justice of San Juan with four challenges that were dismissed, the opposition businessman appealed to the highest court of Justice and requested a postponement of the elections that were to be held this Sunday, May 14.

For the Justice of San Juan there were no impediments that Uñac was again a candidate. "Two of the San Juan judges who rejected our proposal are directly related to the governor; Daniel Olivares Yapur, was Uñac's former running mate, and Dr. Adriana García Nieto, was an official and legal advisor to the governor," Vallejos denounced.

The news was unexpected for the people of San Juan. There is no record of an election being suspended just four days before its chosen date. The elections called by Uñac had been advanced and separated from the presidential election to try to maintain the power of the Peronism of Uñac and Gioja in the province of Cuyana.

"Justice triumphs. The Court gives us back hope of having a country without privileges," said Vallejos, 50, with 6 children, and a past as an elite martial arts athlete. He is a black belt in karate, was a member of the Argentine karate team in the 90s, and for 10 years was a teacher of Self-Defense at the Police School of San Juan.

What the Constitution of San Juan says

Article 175 of the Constitution of San Juan states that: "the governor and the lieutenant governor may be re-elected consecutively up to two times."

The leadership of Liberal Evolution, of the United Front for San Juan maintains that Uñac cannot compete in this election as a candidate for governor because he is going through the third consecutive term.

The argument is that in the mandates of the current governor of Peronism it is necessary to count not only the two that he leads to the Executive, but also the one that served as vice governor during the period 2011-2015.

"There is no doubt that no person can run if he has already held any of the positions for governor or vice president consecutively," said Vallejos, candidate for governor for Liberal Evolution.

The precautionary measure to stop the candidacy of Uñac entered under the sponsorship of constitutional lawyer Christian Cao. The measure demanded the suspension of the call for election of governor and vice governor of the Province of San Juan scheduled for May 14, 2023, until a final pronouncement is issued on the candidacy of Uñac.


See also

Suspended elections in San Juan and Tucumán: the Government denounces an "outrage" of the Court and assures that "it aligned itself with the opposition"

Background and jurisprudence: cases in which the Supreme Court intervened in candidates and suspended elections

Source: clarin

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